CIDER APPLES. 23 1 



and crop well. It is a valuable variety, much grown about Dymock, 

 Ledbury, and occasionally elsewhere. 



Fillets or Violets, Summer and Winter. — Apples formerly 

 in good repute as mentioned by Evelyn. They are but little esteemed 

 now, and it is doubtful if the varieties shown for them are true. 



Fox Kernel. — A middle sized, high coloured apple, ovate in 

 shape, with angular sides. The tree bears its beautiful fruit very 

 freely,^ind thus it has kept its place in the Herefordshire Orchards. 

 It should, however, be sold in the market, for it has but a poor 

 character as a cider fruit. 



FoxLEY. — A seedling of Mr. Thos. Andrew Knight from the 

 Siberian Crab, impregnated with the pollen of the Golden Pippin. 

 It is a very small but beautiful apple, of a golden yellow colour, 

 with a bright orange cheek. The specific gravity of the juice, Mr. 

 Knight found to be I'oSo. He thought it a very hardy and most 

 valuable cider fruit, but it has failed to retain this character, and is 

 but very little grown. 



Friar. — A very old variety, formerly much esteemed. It is 

 mentioned by Evelyn, and figured by Mr. Thos. Andrew Knight, 

 who found the specific gravity of its juice to be i'o73. It has dis- 

 appeared of late years, and was not exhibited in its true character. 



Golden Bittersweet. — A Devonshire apple, large and conical 

 with ribbed sides. It is a yellow apple, with a red cheek, and 

 sprinkled over with small russet dots and traces of russet. The 

 tree bears well, and the fruit keeps well. It has a good repute as 

 a cider apple. 



Golden Moyle. — An apple grown on almost every farm 

 around Ledbury. The tree grows large and bears well. The fruit 

 makes good cider, and is also in high repute for the manufacture of 

 jelly and jam. For this latter purpose the fruit, taken from the 

 apple heaps, sold this year, (1S84,) at four pounds the ton. "A 

 sensible apple " the grower observed. 



Goose Apple. — A grass green apple, above middle size. It is 

 very sour, cooks transparently, and makes excellent apple sauce — 

 hence its name. The tree crops " wonderfully." It is chiefly used 

 as a cuhnary fruit, but the remainder is welcomed at the cider press. 



