CIDER APPLES. 



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This apple was formerly highly esteemed amongst the early 

 varieties of cider fruit in Herefordshire, and is still valued in Wor- 

 cestershire. It makes a light pleasant cider, 01 a deep colour, with 

 good keeping qualities, but it is without much flavour, and with but 

 little alcoholic strength. The fruit is therefore seldom used alone. 



The tree is very hardy, and flowers the middle of May. It 

 bears abundantly, and seldom fails to bear. The sandy loams of 

 Worcestershire, with the blue clay (Lias) sub-soil, seems to suit it 

 better than the strong clay loams of Herefordshire. The variety is 

 old, and but very little propagated now. 



WILDING BITTER-SWEET. 



A Wilding that has made its way by its own merit ; a variety 



without any definite history. 



Description. — Fruit : roundish ovate, often conical and ribbed, 

 exactly of the shape, and very similar to the Keswick Codlin, 

 Skin : pale yellow, tinged with green, strewed with russet dots, 

 which have sometimes a greenish tinge surrounding them. Eye : 

 small and closed, with converging segments, and set in a narrow, 

 ribbed basin. Stalk : short, inserted obliquely by the side of a 

 prominent lip, in a narrow, shallow cavity. Flesh : white and 



