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Description. — Fruit : conical, or long conical, snouted and 

 puckered towards the apex. Skin : smooth, lemon yellow, with a 

 faint blush of red on the side exposed to the sun ; the surface is 

 sparingly strewed with minute russet points. Eye : very small, 

 with convergent segments, set in a shallow and narrow puckered 

 basin ; tube very long and slender, funnel shaped ; stamens, 

 marginal. Stalk : half an inch long, slender, and obliquely inserted, 

 frequently with a swelling on one side, at the base of the fruit. 

 Flesh : greenish yellow, woolly, sweet, but not very juicy. Cells 

 of the core, very large and closed ; cell walls, ovate. 



The chemical analysis of the juice of the Red Hereford 

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

 Dublin, gave the following results : — - 



The Red Hereford is held in much esteem in the Herefordshire 

 Orchards, and is widely grown. It makes a rich cider, dark in 

 colour, with a rich, sweet, and highly aromatic flavour. 



The tree is vigorous and fertile, but not large. It blossoms 

 the middle of May and bears freely, ripening at the end of October. 



