238 CIDER APPLES. 



Red Turk, or Bloody Turk. — An early, soft, deep red 

 apple, the colour extending more or less through the flesh. It is a 

 bad keeper and a poor cider fruit. It, too, should be sold to the 

 costermonger. 



Red Wilding. — A late apple of middle size. Its juice does 

 not fine well, and it is only useful to mix with other varieties. 



Reynold's Crab, or Raynal's Crab. — A yellow fleshed fruit, 

 with something of the flavour of the Siberian Crab, The tree grows 

 to a large size, and bears " wonderfully." The fruit makes " the 

 very best cider." 



Rusty Coat. — A Gloucestershire apple of good repute. It is 

 a small yellow apple, with an orange cheek, specked and marked 

 with rough russet. It is a late fruit, and thought to make excellent 

 cider. 



Sea Spawn. — A local variety from Dilwyn, very small in size. 

 The tree bears very freely, and the fruit is thought to add virtue to 

 mixed fruits. 



Sheeps Snout, or Sheeps Nose. — A light, green, bitter sweet 

 apple, largely grown in Somersetshire, Gloucestershire, and Worces- 

 tershire. It is of medium size, and of a somewhat narrow, oblong 

 shape, with sharp angles. It is valued as a cider fruit, and cooks 

 well when in season. 



Siberian Bitter Sweet. — A very handsome, small, globular 

 fruit, of golden colour, with a red cheek, growing in clusters. It is 

 a seedling of Mr. Thomas Andrew Knight's, produced from a seed 

 of the Yellow Siberian Crab fertilized with the pollen of the Golden 

 Harvey. The juice is sweet, without acidity, with the high specific 

 gravity of 1.09 1. It has failed, however, as a cider apple, but is 

 very useful for making preserve, or jelly. 



Siberian Harvey. — Another seedling of Mr. Knight's, from 

 the same parentage as the last named apple, and its juice has the 

 same high specific gravity I'ogi. It first fruited in 1807, when it 

 obtained the annual premium of the Herefordshire Agricultural 

 Society. It is a beautiful fruit, growing in thick clusters. 

 Mr. Knight thought it would prove to be a cider apple of the 

 highest merit, but it has not gained this character, and is now but 

 little grown. 



