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as "a great bearer, and its cider early ripe," — and Phillips says of 

 it :— 



" But how with equal Numbers shall we match 

 The Muslims surpassing Worth ! that earliest gives 

 Sure hops of racy Wine, and in its Youth, 

 Its tender Nonage, loads the spreading Boughs 

 With large and juicy Offspring, that defies 

 The Vernal Nippings, and cold Sydereal Blasts ! " 



Description. — Fruit : roundish or oblate, even and regular in 

 its outline. Skin : smooth and shining, of an uniform pale straw 

 colour, which is a little deeper where it is more exposed to the 

 light. Eye : small and open, set in a narrow and rather deep basin, 

 which is round and smooth ; segments, divergent ; tube, short 

 conical ; stamens, basal. Stalk : short, and almost entirely within 

 the cavity, and from which issues a ramifying patch of rough scaly 

 brown russet, extending over the base. Flesh : yellowish, very 

 tender, juicy, and pleasantly subacid. Cells of the core, closed ; 

 cell-walls, obovate. This is a pretty apple, and, after being 

 gathered, its skin becomes quite unctuous, and gives off a 

 powerful ethereal odour. 



The chemical analysis of the juice of the White Must (season 

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

 Dublin, gave the following results : — 



The White Must apple still retains its useful qualities, and is 

 largely grown in all the cider counties of England. It produces a 

 deep-coloured, sweet, and pleasant cider; but it has no great 

 strength, and will not keep long. 



