REYNOLDS PEACH
Apple[NOTE: Source text describes an apple, not a peach. Bunyard (1920) explicitly identifies this as "an old West Country apple." The physical description and characteristics are entirely consistent with an apple, and this may reflect a categorization error.]
Origin and History An old West Country apple, also known as Emperor Napoleon, much grown in Devonshire orchards. Remarkable for its earliness and unusual appearance on the tree.
Tree Growth dwarf and fertile. Leaf rather large, pea green, upfolded, and boldly crenate.
Fruit
Size and Form: 2½ by 2½; flat, conical, and irregular.
Skin: Entirely covered with the brightest carmine with heavy bloom.
Flesh: Loose, pale yellow; sub-acid flavor.
Calyx: Closed.
Basin: Very ribbed and irregular.
Stem: Short and thick, not protruding.
Season August.
Uses Culinary or dessert.
Other Of no value as a variety, according to Bunyard.
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— E.A. Bunyard, A Handbook of Hardy Fruits (1920)REYNOLDS PEACH. (Emperor Napoleon.) Culinary or dessert, August, 2½ by 2½, flat, conical, irregular. Colour, entirely covered with the brightest carmine with heavy bloom. Flesh, loose, pale yellow, sub-acid. Eye, closed, in a very ribbed irregular basin. Stem, short and thick not protruding. Growth, dwarf; fertile. Leaf, rather large, pea green, upfolded, boldly crenate. Origin, an old West Country apple much grown in Devonshire orchards. Remarkable for its earliness and unusual appearance on the tree, but of no value.