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CIDER APPLES. 



SACK APPLE. 



[Syn : Spice Apple ; Fox's Kernel.^ 



This apple is one of our oldest historic varieties. 



Description. — Fruit, below medium size; conical, and uneven 

 in its outline, being ribbed on the sides like the Margil, 

 and rigid round the eye. Skin : smooth and shining, as it 

 varnished, almost entirely covered with deep bright crimson, which 

 is streaked and mottled with darker crimson on the side next the 

 sun ; but where shaded, it is yellowish and mottled with crimson. 

 Eye : small and closed, with erect pointed segments, set in a deep 

 and plaited basin ; tube, funnel shaped ; stamens, median ; the 

 style very stout and thick at the base, filling nearly the half of 

 the tube. Stalk : very short, thick, and fleshy, set in a very shallow 

 cavity. Flesh : tender, crisp, fine-grained, sweet, and with a pleasant, 

 sub-acid flavour. Cells of the core, open ; cell walls, ovate. 

 In use during October and November. 



The chemical analysis of the juice of the Sack Apple (season 



