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was afraid that the judges would not keep their heads clear to give them a prize 

 (a laugh), but on their return they found that they had been awarded a silver-gilt 

 medal for mixed cider, a silver medal for Foxwhelp cider, and a bronze medal for 

 cider and perry fruits (applause). It was thought that the Herefordshire cider was 

 stronger than the other, and that it was charged with alcohol or something else. 

 For his own part, he thought that the strength existed in the fruit, and that the 

 cider was not charged. If they could have stayed a few days longer, they might 

 have tasted the opposition cider and compared it with their's. The distribution of 

 the awards took place at a grand " ceremonie solennelle." The chief thing they 

 wished to ascertain was, whether their so-called Norman apples were the real apples 

 of jSTormandy or not. The result of a careful comparison was that they were not, 

 but that they really were Herefordshire seedlings, to which the fashionable name 

 of Norman had been given. Last year it will be remembered that a fine collection 

 of cider apples, consisting of eighty-five varieties, was sent from Normandy to 

 Hereford, not one of which was the same as ours. This rendered it still more 

 necessary to place our so-called Norman apples on the tables in Normandy, in 

 order to make the comparison. This has now been done with much more care, 

 but the Herefordshire apples were none of them recognized by the Norman 

 nurserymen and fruit growers, nor could the representatives of the Woolhope 

 Club find any of them amongst the 2,000 plates shown at Rouen. There was one 

 exception, and that is scarcely a cider apple. The Foley Norman, said to have 

 been introduced by the late Mr. Edward Foley, at the early part of the present 

 century, was closely similar in size, colour, taste, and shape, to the Blanc Doux 

 exhibited there. It has thus become clear that the so-called Norman apples of the 

 Herefordshire orchards are not really Normans. They are probably Herefordshire 

 seedlings from the farm nurseries, which, in the long century of neglect that has 

 passed over our orchards, got planted out, and, having no name of their own, have 

 received the fashionable name of Norman. Thus, the Norman Bitter-sweet will 

 become the Hereford Bitter-sweet ; the Red, Yellow, and Black Normans will be 

 called for the future Red, Yellow, and Black Herefords ; and so on, the name 

 Hereford supplying the place of Norman. The other half of your representatives' 

 work was to select some six or seven of the very best varieties of real Norman 

 apples for introduction into Herefordshire. Four kinds had already been 

 decided upon, and the editor of a Pomological publication would assist them 

 in deciding upon the others (applause). It was interesting to know what others 

 thought, and in a long article in the Journal de Rouen, of the 4th of October, 

 the editor wrote: — "See this appetising fruit sent from England, is it not 

 splendid ? Ripened under fog, this beautiful fruit ! (laughter). Does it taste as 

 well as ours ? We do not know. But for size, freshness, and colour these English 

 apples can take a place in the first class. The Normandy apple is not more rosy 

 or finer " (applause). Leaving to his companion, Mr. Piper, to make observations 

 on the Normandy orchards in general, he would only say that their peregrinations 

 led them to the great centre of Normandy orchards — Yvetot. It was a rich, 

 beautiful country. Yvet6t was a town of some 10,000 inhabitants, and its 

 burlesque Royalty had been immortalized by Beranger in one of his most popular 



