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for a hogshead of a hundred and ten gallons; also 

 bottle for bottle of wine and spirituous liquors, have 

 been offered for it. The fruit, when fully ripe, has 

 a yellow ground streaked with bright red the 

 size about middling, the form round, flat at the ends ; 

 the stalk large the flesh remarkably soft and woolly, 

 but not dry the taste acid, but highly flavoured, the 

 quantity of juice smaller, in proportion to the fibrous 

 matter, than in most other apples, requiring near one 

 third more of the Hagloes for a barrel of cider, than 

 of common fruit : the juice, though uncommonly sheer, 

 is singularly rich, and though the smell of the apple 

 is faint, the flavour of the cider is high ; and when pro- 

 perly manufactured, is very rich. The colour of the 

 flesh is pale, but that of the cider dark it ripens in 

 August and September; keeps a long time without 

 rotting it bears abundantly and early: the growth 

 of the tree is very uncommon ; thick strong shoots ; 

 buds, particularly at the extremity of the branches, 

 very large; the colour of the wood dark the size 

 of the tree small : the Hagloe is an uncommonly fine 

 cooking apple ; and from its great beauty and large 

 size, added to its abundant bearing, is a valuable 

 market fruit. 



