APPLES. 79 



This is a fine old Gloucestershire cider apple, which is extensively 

 cultivated on the thin limestone soils of the Forest of Dean. The 

 cider that it produces is strong bodied, rich, and highly flavoured. 



The tree produces numerous straight, luxuriant, upward shoots, 

 like a pollard willow ; it runs much to wood, and in deep soils attains 

 a considerable size before it becomes fruitful. 



FORGE. Fruit, medium sized, two inches and a half wide, and two 

 and a quarter high ; roundish, and obtusely ribbed. Skin, of a golden 

 yellow colour, mottled with crimson on the shaded side, and dark red 

 covered with dark crimson streaks on the side next the sun. Eye, 

 small and closed, set in a rather deep angular and plaited basin. 

 Stamens, marginal or median ; tube, long, funnel-shaped. Stalk, very 

 short, set in a shallow, close cavity, and generally with a fleshy swelling 

 on one side of it. Flesh, yellowish white, tender, juicy, sweet, and 

 finely perfumed. Cells, obovate ; axile, open. 



A useful kitchen apple. The tree a great and constant bearer. 

 October to January. 



This is the cottager's apple par excellence in that part of Sussex which is con- 

 terminous to Surrey and Kent. It originated at Forge Farm, near one of the old 

 forges in the iron districts of Sussex, near Crawley. 



FORMAN'S CREW. Fruit, small, two inches wide, and an inch 

 and three-quarters high; ovate, even and symmetrical in outline. Skin, 

 yellow and russety, with a tinge of reddish brown on the side next the 

 sun. Eye, small and open, with short divergent segments, set in a 

 ribbed basin. Stamens, median ; tube, funnel-shaped. Stalk, half an 

 inch long, inserted in a small narrow cavity. Flesh, greenish yellow, 

 juicy, rich, and highly flavoured. Cells, ovate ; axile. 



One of the best dessert apples, with the flavour of Nonpareil and 

 Golden Pippin. November to April. The tree is a great bearer, but 

 is tender and subject to canker. It is well adapted for dwarf bushes, 

 and espaliers when grafted on the paradise stock. 



This variety was raised by Thomas Seton Forman, Esq., Pennydarron Place, 

 near Merthyr Tydvil. 



FORMOSA PIPPIN. Fruit, medium sized ; roundish, and rather 

 irregular in its outline, being somewhat ribbed, sometimes inclining to 

 oblate. Skin, greenish yellow on the shaded side, but almost entirely 

 covered with crimson, and streaked with the same colour on the side 

 next the sun. Eye, closed, set in an even basin. Stalk, half an inch long, 

 rather deeply inserted. Flesh, yellow, with a greenish tinge, firm, 

 crisp, juicy, brisk, sugary, and with a rather rich flavour. 



A useful apple, either for cooking or for the dessert ; frequently 

 confounded with the Ribston Pippin, to which it is somewhat similar, 

 but to which it is inferior in flavour. 



FORMOSA NONPAREIL. Fruit, below medium size, two inches 



