CIDER APPLES. 



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indicate so high a character, for though the juice abounds in sugar, 

 it is very deficient in tannin, mucilage and salts, to which good 

 body, and keeping qualities are attributed. The fruit meets with a 

 ready sale in the market both for edible and culinary purposes. 



The tree is hardy, and bears well. It likes a high situation 

 and deep strong loam, well drained, as indeed do most apples of 

 character. 



RED SPLASH. 



[Syn : Rolling's Kernel?^ 



The origin oi this pretty variety is nowhere given, though it is 

 extensively cultivated in some Worcestershire Orchards. 



Descriptio7i. — Fruit : small, roundish oblate, and regularly 

 formed. Skin : golden yellow, with a few streaks of crimson on 

 the shaded side, and completely covered with crimson on the side 

 exposed to the sun. Eye : with divergent segments reflexed at the 

 top, set in a wide and saucer-like basin. Tube, short, funnel 

 shaped ; stamens, median. Stalk : a quarter to half an inch long, 

 slender, and set in a rather wide cavity. Flesh : yellowish, juicy, 

 sweet, and agreeably flavoured, but with considerable astringency. 

 Cells, open ; cell walls, roundish, inclining to obovate. 



This small apple is a valuable early cider fruit. 



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



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