CIDER APPLES. 237 



PouGHiLL Green. — A large green Somersetshire apple, which 

 keeps well. It only finds its way to the elder mill when the crop 

 is abundant, and the market overstocked. 



Pound Apple. — A very large apple without sufficiently good 

 qualities to keep it in the market, and it is used therefore in Devon- 

 shire and Somersetshire for cider. It quickly fills the cask, but 

 requires apples of better character to give strength and flavour to 

 the liquor. 



Preece's Kernel. — A large apple, which ripens early and 

 decays quickly. It has little merit, either on the table, or in the 

 cider press. 



Price's Bittersweet. — A late apple, striped red and green, 

 rather below middle size. It is thought one of the best apples in 

 the Froome valley, and makes excellent cider alone, or in mixture. 



Puppy Snout. — A middle sized apple of narrow pointed .shape. 

 It is late in season, and of rather doubtful character as a cider fruit. 



Ramping Taurus. — A recent variety, grown at Fair Oaks 

 Farm, Castle Morton, Worcestershire. The fruit is large, conical 

 and angular, greenish white, and bittersweet. It makes "grand 

 cider " and very strong. This apple has the peculiarity of baking 

 well, but it will not boil. 



Red Cluster. — A small red Somersetshire apple, a late 

 variety, which gives excellent assistance in making cider from mixed 

 fruit. The tree bears freely. 



Red Must, or Musk. — This is the largest cider apple grown 

 in Herefordshire, and is therefore seldom used as such. It has a 

 light thin juice, of the specific gravity 1.064 (Knight), and is not so 

 much esteemed now as it was formerly. 



Red Soldier. — " A very lucky bearer," and from this, and its 

 bright colour, it was much sought after a few years since. However, 

 it only makes a thin, poor cider, and has thus lost its repute. It 

 should be sold in the market, where a good colour sells anything. 



Red Styre. — A small apple, almost entirely covered with dark 

 crimson. It is an excellent cider fruit, and highly valued in the 

 Froome valley, where it is chiefly to be found. 



