PREFACE. Vii. 



The First Class (Cartes Jaunes) consists of " excellent " 

 Apples, and it gives twenty four varieties. The Apples in this Class 

 contain Sugar, Alcohol, Tannin and Perfume in sufficient quantities 

 to yield a rich, long-keeping Cider of excellent perfume and flavour ; 

 whilst it retains a sufficient amount of unreduced Sugar, to give 

 sweetness, and enough Tannin, to give strengthening virtues, and 

 at the same time to moderate the action of the Alcohol. 



The Second Class (Cartes Blanches) consists of " very good 

 Apples," and it gives fifty one varieties. These Apples yield juices 

 with sufficient Sugar, Tannin, and Perfume to make a rich good- 

 keeping Cider. 



The Third Class (Cartes Saummonnees) are " good Apples," 

 and it presents sixty eight varieties. Their juices yield a pleasant 

 Cider very good in flavour, but without much strength, or keeping 

 qualities. 



The Fourth Class (Cartes Lilas) consists of "Middling or Bad" 

 Fruits, and it gives two hundred and five varieties. These contain 

 in a very inferior degree, the useful properties of those in the three 

 former Classes. 



This Catalogue also gives the results of the enquiries into the 

 virtues of twenty seven varieties of Perry Pears, of which one 

 variety only is put in the First Class ; two in the Second ; nine 

 in the Third ; and Fifteen in the Last Class. 



This Catalogue thus aff"ords the most useful and valuable 

 information, as to the real merits of the several varieties of Fruit, in 

 a concise form, and renders great service to the cultivators in the 

 formation of their Orchards. 



The Congress also laid down this general rule as the result of 

 their labours, that the minimum density of the juice of Cider and 

 Perry Fruits, should be 1.075, ^^ith at least one half per cent, of 

 Tannin. 



The Woolhope Naturalists' Field Club has been engaged 

 during the last nine years in obtaining Orchard information, with a 

 view to improve the varieties of Fruit grown, and to restore the 

 commercial position of their products. The result of all these 

 enquiries is embodied in " The Herefordshire Pomona." This 



