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CIDER APPLES. 



BLACK HEREFORD. 

 [Syn : Black Norman.^ 



This very distinct variety is again without history, and was not 

 known by any of the Norman exhibitors, at the Rouen Exhibition 

 in 1884. 



Description. — Fruit : roundish and flattened, obscurely ribbed, 

 especially round the eye. Skin : smooth and shining, unctuous to 

 the touch, after the fruit has been gathered ; dull mahogany red, on 

 the side next the sun, and gradually becoming paler towards the 

 shaded side, which is deep green, and slightly mottled with red. 

 Eye : closed, with long, leafy, convergent segments, set in a rather 

 deep irregular basin ; tube, conical ; stamens, medium. Stalk : 

 long and slender, inserted in a deep, wide, funnel shaped cavity, 

 which is slightly russety. Flesh : greenish, very tender, juicy and 

 brisk, with a faint sweetness. Cells of the core, quite closed ; cell- 

 walls, ovate. 



The chemical analysis of the juice of the Black Hereford 

 (season 1878), by Mr. G. H. With, F.R.A.S., F.C.S., Trinity College, 



