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soundness of this judgment was soon confirmed by experience, for 

 by the end of the last century the Redstreak had quite lost all favour. 

 Dunster in his " Notes to Phillips Foons" thought the true method 

 of managing was lost, for out of ten or twelve casks seldom more 

 than two or three proved good, and adds " it is now (1791) seldom 

 made from." Marshall (1796) says plainly "the Redstreak apple is 

 given up, and Thomas Andrew Knight speaks of it (181 1) as having 

 survived its good qualities. 



Description. — Fruit : middle sized, two inches and three 

 quarters wide, and two inches and a quarter high ; roundish, 

 narrowing towards the apex. Skin : deep, clear yellow, streaked 

 with red on the shaded side, but red, streaked with deeper red, on the 

 side next the sun. Eye : small, with convergent segments, set in a 

 rather deep basin. Stalk : short and slender. Flesh : yellow, 

 firm, crisp, and rather dry. Specific gravity, or density of the juice 

 1*079 (Knight). 



The tree seems naturally to have been very short lived. It 

 was low, shrubby and rugged in growth. Evelyn says of it "That 

 as the best Vines of richest liquor and greatest burthen do not 

 spend much in Wood and unprofitable branches, so nor does this 

 tree." 



The result of careful enquiries recently made for the true old 

 variety, was the discovery of only one tree at King's Caple, which 

 however was blown down in the spring of 1878. Mr. Reginald 

 Wynniat, of the Grainge, Dymock, has kindly ascertained (1879) for 

 this paper, that there is still one tree remaining at Kempley, of the 

 many thousands growing at Dymock and Kempley, in 17 14. 

 Redstreak's there are in abundance in every parish, named simply 

 from their mode of colouration. Evelyn noticed this fact " The 

 Red-strake of King's Caple, and those parts, is of great variety, 

 some make cider that is not of continuance, yet pleasant and good ; 

 others that lasts long, inclining towards the Broinsborroiv Crab 

 rather than a Red-Strake.''^ 



The old Redstreak as a distinct variety has now ceased to 

 exist, and it may be added that its loss is not to be lamented. 



