CIDER APPLES IO3 



cider of a deep colour, with a sweet, rich, and pleasant flavour. 



The tree grows well and freely ; it blossoms in the middle of 

 May, and ripens its fruit in the middle of October. It is apt to bear 

 in abundance, only every second year. 



CHERRY PEARMAIN. 



This variety is an old one, and widely spread throughout the 

 orchards of Herefordshire. It is without any known history. 



Description. — Fruit : very handsome in colour, and regular in 

 shape, round oblong, above medium size. Skin : yellow, but very 

 much covered, as it were, with the small particles of broken-up 

 streaks of crimson, which run together on the side exposed to the 

 sun, where they are traversed by streaks of deeper crimson. Eye : 

 small and closed, set in a narrow cavity. Stalk : half an inch long, 

 almost hidden in a deep and narrow cavity, which is lined with 

 russet. Flesh : soft, and reddish pink in patches beneath the skin, 

 and outside the core fibres ; sweet and pleasant to taste, with a 

 slight after roughness. Juice : plentiful, of a rich pink colour, 

 changing to a deep rosy red. 



The chemical analysis of the juice of the Cherry Pearmain 



