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crimson, on the shaded side ; but streaked with yellow and bright 

 crimson, on the side next the sun. Eye, open, with short, stunted 

 segments, placed in a deep, angular, and plaited basin. Stalk, short, 

 imbedded in a round, funnel-shaped cavity. Flesh, yellowish, soft, 

 and tender, transparent, sweet, and briskly flavored, but rather dry. 

 An apple of very ordinary quality, in use from October to March. 



329. SIBERIAN BITTER SWEET.— Knight. 

 Identification. — Pom. Heref. t. 23. Lind. Guide, 111. Down. Er. Ajner. 146. 



Fruit, small, and nearly globular. Eye, small, with short connivent 

 segments of the calyx. Stalk, short. Skin, of a bright gold color, 

 tinged with faint and deeper red on the sunny side. The fruit grows 

 a good deal in clusters, on slender wing branches. 



Specific gravity of the juice, 1091. 



This remarkable apple was raised by Mr. Knight from the seed 

 of the Yellow Siberian Crab, impregnated with the pollen of 

 the Golden Harvey. I cannot do better than transcribe from the 

 Transactions of the London Horticultural Society, Mr. Knight's own 

 account of this apple. "The fruit contains much saccharine matter, 

 with scarcely any perceptible acid ; and it in consequence affords a 

 cider, which is perfectly free from the harshness which in that liquid 

 offends the palate of many, and the constitution of more ; and I 

 believe that there is not any county in England in which it might 

 not be made to afford, at a moderate price, a very wholesome and 

 very palatable cider. This fruit differs from all others of its species 

 with which I am acquainted, in being always sweet, and without acidity, 

 even when it is more than half grown. 



" When the juice is pressed from ripe, and somewhat mellow fruit, 

 it contains a very large portion of saccharine matter ; and if a part of 

 the water it contains be made to evaporate in a moderately low 

 temperature, it affords a large quantity of a jelly of intense sweetness, 

 which to my palate is extremely agreeable ; and which may be employed 

 for purposes similiar to those to which the inspissated juice of the 

 grape is applied in France. The jelly of the apple prepared in the 

 manner above described, is, I believe, capable of being kept unchanged 

 during a very long period in any climate ; the mucilage being preserved 

 by the antiseptic powers of the saccharine matter, and that being incapable 

 of acquiring, as sugar does, a state of crystallization. If the juice be 

 properly filtered, the jelly will be perfectly transparent." 



The tree is a strong and vigorous grower ; a most abundant bearer, 

 and a perfect dreadnought to the woolly aphis. 



330. SIBERIAN HARVEY.— Knight. 



Identification. — Pom. Heref. t. 23. Lind. Guide, 111. Hort. Soc. Cat. ed. 3, 

 n. 777. 



Fruit, produced in clusters, small ; nearly globular. Eye, small, with 

 short connivent segments of the calyx. Stalk, short. Skin, of a bright 



