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BRITISH POMOLOGY, ETC. 



An American dessert apple of little value ; in use Irom October to 

 January. 



In the Horticultural Society's Catalogue this is made synonymous 

 with Esopus Spitzenburgh, but it is quite a different variety. 



128. FOREST STYRE.— Knight. 



Identification. — Pom. Heref. pi. xii- 



Synonymes. — Stire, Marsh. Gloucest. ii. 251. Hort. Soc. Cat. ed. 3, n. 799. Forest 

 Styre, Lind. Guide, 104. 



Figure. — Pom. Heref. pi. xii. 



Fruit, below medium size ; roundish, inclining to oblate, regularly 

 and handsomely shaped. Skin, pale yellow, with a blush of red on the 

 side which is exposed to the sun. Eye, small and closed, with short 

 obtuse segments, set in a shallow ^nd plaited basin. Stalk, very short, 

 inserted in a shallow cavity. Flesh, firm. 



Specific gravity of the juice from 1076 to 1081. 



This is a fine old Gloucestershire cider apple, which is extensively 

 cultivated on the thin limestone soils of the Forest of Dean. The cider 

 that it produces is strong bodied, rich, and highly flavored. 



The tree produces numerous straight, luxuriant, upward shoots, like 

 a pollard willow ; it runs much to wood, and in deep soils attains a con- 

 siderable size before it becomes fruitful. 



129. FORGE.— H. 



Fruit, medium sized ; roundish, obscurely ribbed, and .sometimes nar- 

 rowing towards 

 the eye, where it 

 is angular. Skin, 

 smooth and shin- 

 ing, of a fine gold- 

 en yellow color, 

 strewed with mot- 

 tles of crimson on 

 the shaded side ; 

 and dark red 

 marked with 

 patches of deep 

 crimson on the 

 side exposed to 

 the sun ; some- 

 times when much 

 exposed to the 

 sun the yellow 

 assumes a deep 

 orange tinge. 

 Eye, small and 



closed, set in an angular basin. Stalk, very short, not a quarter of an 

 inch long, inserted in a small, round, and shallow cavity, surrounded 



