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A dessert apple of good but not first-rate quality ; in use from Decem- 

 ber to March. 



The tree is healthy and vigorous, and a good bearer. 



162. HAGLOE CRAB.— Knight. 



Identification. — Pom. Heref. t. 5. Fors. Treat. 106. Lind. Guide, 107. 



Fruit, small, two inches wide, and the same in height ; ovate, flattened, 

 and irregularly shaped. Skin, pale yellow, streaked with red next the 

 sun, and covered with a few patches of grey russet. Eye, open, with 

 flat, reflexed segments. Stalk, short. Flesh, soft and woolly, but not 

 dry. 



Specific gravity of its juice 1081. 



This is a most excellent cider apple ; the liquor it produces being 

 remarkable for its strength, richness, and high flavor. It requires, how- 

 ever, to be grown in certain situations ; a dry soil with a calcareous 

 subsoil, being considered the best adapted for producing its cider in 

 perfection. Marshall says, " It was raised from seed by Mr. Bellamy, 

 of Hagloe, in Gloucestershire, grandfather of the present Mr. Bellamy, 

 near Ross, in Herefordshire, who draws from it (that is, from trees grafted 

 with scions from this parent stock) a liquor, which for richness, flavor, 

 and pure on the spot, exceeds perhaps every other fruit liquor which 

 nature and art have produced. He has been offered sixty guineas for a 

 hogshead (about 1 10 gallons) of this liquor. He has likewise been offered 

 bottle for bottle of wine, or spirituous liquors, the best to be produced ; 

 and this without freight, duty, or even a mile of carriage to enhance its 

 original price. 



163. HALL DOOR.— Fors. 



Identification. — Fors, Treat. 106. Hort. Soc. Cat. ed. 3, n. 313. Eog. Fr. 



Cult. 57. 

 FiGDKE. — Ron. Pyr. Mai. pi. xxxiii. f. 1. 



Fruit, large, three inches and a half wide, and two inches and three quar- 

 ters high ; oblate, puckered round the eye. Skin, pale green at first, but 

 changing to dull yellow, streaked with red. Eye, set in a wide and irregu- 

 lar basin. Stalk, short and thick, inserted in a moderately deep cavity. 

 Flesh, white, firm, but coarse, juicy, and pleasantly flavored. 



A dessert apple of ordinary merit ; in use from December to March. 



164. HAMBLEDON DEUX ANS.— Hort. 



Identification.— Hort. Soc. Cat. ed. 3, n. 202. Ron. Pyr. Mai. 83. 

 Fig DUE. — Ron Pyr. Mai. pi. xlii. f. 4. 



■ Fruit, large, three inches wide, and two inches and a half high ; 

 roundish, rather broadest at the base. Skin, greenish-yellow in the 

 shade; and dull red, streaked with broad stripes of deeper and brighter 

 red, on the side next the sun. Eye, small and closed, set in a rather 

 shallow basin. Stalk, short, inserted in a shallow cavity. Flesh, green- 

 ish-white, firm, crisp, not very juicy, but richly and briskly flavored. 



