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the quantity of its sugar, but also from the amount of Tannin, 

 Mucilage and Salts, which ensure its good qualities. 



The tree grows to a large size, is very hardy, and bears well. 

 It is much grown in the valley of the river Froome, where the trees 

 are, many of them, nearly a century old. 



STRAWBERRY HEREFORD. 



[Syn ; Strmvberry Norman^ 



The origin of this apple is not known. It is probably a local 

 Herefordshire seedling, and is now widely distributed throughout 

 the county. 



Description. — Fruit : small, round, flattened, and uneven in 

 outline, being angular and considerably ribbed around the eye. 

 Skin : with a lemon yellow ground, covered with light crimson, 

 which is thickly marked with broken streaks and mottles of a bright 

 and darker crimson, on the sunny side ; and these streaks gradually 

 getting more pale, are extended to the shaded side of the fruit ; 

 the stalk cavity and the base of the apple are lined with cinnamon- 

 coloured russet. Eye : of middle size, with long, leafy, rather 

 erect, and slightly divergent segments, set in a very deep and 

 ribbed basin ; tube, short and funnel shaped ; stamens, inclining to 



