CIDER APPLES. 239 



Slack-My-Girdle, or Slack-Ma-Girl. — A striped Somerset- 

 shire apple of large size. It keeps well, and is usually sold for 

 culinary purposes, though it often helps to fill the barrel. As a 

 cider apple, however, it has not much merit. 



Sops in Wine. — An apple above middle size, orange red on 

 the shady side, and very dark red towards the sun. The fruit 

 has a bloom on the surface. The flesh is also coloured red, more 

 or less. The tree is large and bears well. It is considered a good 

 culinary and cider fruit. 



Stead's Kernel. — An ovate, conical apple of middle size. It 

 was raised by Mr. Daniel Stead, of Brierley, near Leominster. It is 

 a late variety, yellow in colour, with specks and lines of grey russet. 

 It is a valuable bitter sweet cider apple, with a combined sweetness 

 and astringency. Its juice has the specific gravity of i'o74 (Knight). 

 It cooks well during its season. 



Styre, or Small Styre. — A small red apple of oblong shape, 

 and yellow flesh. It makes excellent cider. The apples look like 

 plums on the tree. 



Sugar Apple, or Sugar Loaf. — A pot, or cider fruit, grown 

 on every farm in the parish of Ledbury and its neighbourhood. It 

 sells well in the market, but it " helps to make first class cider, and 

 for this it is always kept by those who know its virtue." 



SuGWAS Kernel. — A local variety grown at Sugwas, near 

 Hereford, but without any very great merit. 



Sussex Apple, — A Sussex pippin, hard in texture, and covered 

 with brown russet. It has a rough, harsh taste, and is a good cider 

 apple. The tree is not " lucky " in bearing. 



Sweet Rennet, or Reinette. — A green Somersetshire apple, 

 of middle size. It is an early variety, and bears well, but has not 

 sufficient character to make good cider by itself 



Tankerton. — An apple of full middle size, white, with a 

 pink cheek. The tree grows thick in the wood, and bears well. 

 It is a mid-season apple, cooks well, and makes a fair cider. 



Ten Commandments. — A deep red, rather conical apple, with 

 ribs, becoming very prominent near the eye. The flesh is white, 

 stained here and there with red. When cut across, it shows ten 



