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CIDER APPLES. 



GENNET MOYLE. 



The Moile 

 Of sweetest honey'd taste. 



Philips Cyder. 



The Gennet Moyk was the favourite apple in the Cider 

 Orchards of the 15th century, and continued to be so until Lord 

 Scudamore's Redstreak supplanted it in popular esteem. Its 

 history is lost ; but its name signifies " a hybrid scion," from 

 " gennet " a hybrid, or mule ; and " moyle " a scion, or graft. It 

 is still to be found in the old orchards of Herefordshire, though it 

 has now become scarce. 



Description. — Fruit : round, somewhat prominently and 

 obtusely ribbed on the sides, and with ridges round the crown. 

 Skin : of a clear lemon colour, with more or less russety cheek, 

 and with russet lines all over the side exposed to the sun. Eye : 

 closed, with convergent, leafy segments, and set in a puckered 

 basin ; tube, long and funnel shaped ; stamens, marginal. Stalk : 

 about half an inch long, inserted all its length in the cavity, which 

 is lined with russet. Flesh : with a yellowish tinge, tender, not 



