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smooth surface, and dull colour, make it quite unmistakeable. It 

 bears very freely, and this, perhaps, is its best qualification, for the 

 cider made from it, is thin and poor. 



Description. — Fruit : small, roundish ovate, inclining to short 

 conical, even in its outline, slightly angular towards the crown, 

 where it is prominently plaited round the eye. Skin : smooth and 

 rather shining, of a dark mahogany colour next the sun, but on the 

 shaded side, it is greenish yellow, covered with broad broken stripes 

 of bright crimson. Eye : small and rather open, with rather con- 

 nivent segments, and set nearly on a level with the surface, with 

 only a very slight depression; tube, short conical; stamens, medium. 

 Stalk : short, set in a shallow cavity. Flesh : yellowish, sometimes 

 with a greenish tinge, briskly acid. Cells of the core, open ; cell- 

 walls, obovate. 



The chemical analysis of the juice of the Black Foxivhelp 

 (season 1876), by Mr. G. H. With, F.R.A.S., F.C.S., Trinity 

 College, Dublin, gave the following results : — 



Density of fresh juice ... ... I'osS 



Ditto after 24 hours' exposure to air ... i"048 

 100 parts of juice by weight, yielded of 



Sugar ... ... ... ... 6*400 



Tannin, Mucilage, Salts, &c. ... ... 5 "206 



Water ... ... ... ... 88-394 



The Black Foxivhelp, notwithstanding its small amount of 

 sugar, is still esteemed in some orchards, when mixed with sweeter 

 varieties, for the amount of tannin it contains. The results of the 

 analysis, show it to be a variety of little value. 



The tree is hardy, grows upright and bears well. 



The sooner the trees of the Black Foxwhelp are re-grafted, or 

 cut down, the better. 



These several apples bear the Foxwhelp name. They have no 

 special history, but the inference is, that they are, what tradition 

 supposes them to be, seedlings from the Foxwhelp, 



