CIDER APPLES. II9 



The form of the fruit varies according to the age of the tree, 

 and tliis is the case with most varieties. The section is taken 

 from fruit grown by John Bosley, Esq., of Lyde, and represents 

 a fruit from a tree which is the result of four successive 

 graftings, from one of the old trees of the Foxwheip, the scions being 

 taken in each instance from the tree grafted the previous year. 



A Foxwhdp apple of good size and colour, grown in the year 

 1876, yielded 7^ drachms of a strongly acidulated juice with its 

 own flavour, and of the specific gravity of i"o68 ; and others of a 

 smaller size gave 5 3^ drachms of juice with a specific gravity of 

 I '074. Mr. Knight gives the higher specific gravity of i'o76 to 

 I •080, which perhaps might be due to a more favourable year. 



The chemical analysis of the juice of the Foxivkelp (season 

 1877), by Mr. G. H. With, F.R.A.S., F.C.S., Trinity College, Dublin, 

 gave the following results : — 



Density of fresh juice ... ... i'o68 



Ditto after 24 hours' exposure to air ... i'o7o 

 100 parts of juice by weight, yielded of 



Sugar ... ... ... ... 1 4 -400 



Tannin, Mucilage, Salts, &c. ... ... 8*500 



Water ... ... ... ... 77'ioo 



It must be stated, however, that the absence of sun, and the 

 great rainfall of the summer of 1877, made it a most unfavourable 

 season for the growth of any fruit in perfection. 



The home of the Foxivkelp Apple^ be its origin what it may, is 

 in the deep clay loam of the Old Red Sandstone, in the central 

 districts of Herefordshire, and especially in the valleys of the rivers 

 Lugg and Froome. The chief orchards are to be found in the 

 villages of Lugwardine, Westhide, Withington, Lyde, Moreton, 

 Sutton, Wistaston, Marden, Bodenham, Burrop, Wellington-on-the- 

 Lugg ; and those of Weston Beggard, Yarkhill, Tarrington, Stoke 

 Edith, Stretton Grandison, Eggleton, the Froomes, the Cowarnes, 

 and the other villages on the Froome, are seldom without a few 

 old trees of the Foxivkelp Apple. 



The broad valley of the Wye does not generally present so 

 good and rich a soil. The river has been so erratic in days gone 



