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CIDER APPLES. 



RED BUD. 



Red Bud is a favourite name in the Herefordshire orchards, 

 for red coloured, and otherwise unnamed fruit. At every apple 

 show, three and sometimes four distinct apples have been shown 

 under this name. There is nothing known definitely of the origin 

 of any of them. They are probably seedlings from the orchard 

 nursery, and propagated from their colour, and from their bearing 

 virtues. 



Description. — Fruit : medium size, roundish oblate, with obtuse 

 angles, extending nearly to the base. Skin : smooth, bright red, 

 much deeper on the side next the sun. It is however, puckered in 

 lines about the eye, and they sometimes run down the ribs to the 

 base. Eye : closed, with reflex segments, slightly depressed, in a 

 basin puckered with folds of the skin, as well as slight fleshy 

 tubercles. Stalk : thin, an inch long, set in a deep and narrow 

 cavity, lined with russet. Plesh : yellow, tinged with red for some 

 distance from the skin, soft, with a slightly acidulated taste. Juice : 

 of full amber colour, viscid, and not abundant, sweet, with slight 

 astringency. 



The chemical analysis of the juice of the Red Bud (season 



