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base, and narrow at the crown. Skin, dark grass-green on the shaded 

 side, and dark muddy livid red where exposed to the sun. Eye, sunk, 

 and surrounded by four or five obtuse but prominent ridges. Stalk, 

 short and stiff, notwithstanding which the fruit is generally pendant. 



Specific gravity of its juice, 1073. 



This is a cider apple cultivated in the north-west parts of Hereford- 

 shire, where the climate is cold and the soil unfavourable, and where 

 proper attention is never paid by the farmer to the management of his 

 cider, which in consequence is generally fit only for the ordinary pur- 

 poses of a farm-house (Knight). 



The trees are vigorous and productive. 



Mr. Knight says, " The Friar probably derived its name from some imagined 

 resemblance between its colour and that of the countenance of a well-fed 

 ecclesiastic." 



Frith Pitcher. See Man/is Codlin . 



FROGMORE GOLDEN PIPPIN. Fruit, small, two inches wide, 

 and an inch and three-quarters high, but occasionally the large fleshy 

 swelling at the stalk in the way of the Lemon Pippin would make the 

 height two inches, and on that account the fruit is more oval than 

 round. Skin, yellow, with a pale red cheek, which is streaked with 

 crimson. Eye, open, with short divergent segments, set almost even 

 with the surface, and surrounded with a few plaits. Stamens, mar- 

 ginal ; tube, funnel-shaped. Stalk, very short, set on the end of a 

 fleshy mass. Flesh, yellowish, crisp, juicy, briskly flavoured. Cells, 

 roundish obovate ; axile, closed. 



A good dessert apple ; in use from November till January. It was 

 raised by Mr. Ingram at the Royal Gardens, Windsor. 



FROGMORE NONPAREIL. Fruit, small, two inches and a half 

 wide, and an inch and three-quarters high ; oblate, higher on one side 

 of the axis than the other, even and symmetrical in its outline. Skin, 

 of an uniform straw colour, with a greenish tinge, dotted all over 

 sparingly with russet dots, and with some russet hi the basin of the 

 eye. Eye, wide open, with divergent segments, set in a round, even, 

 saucer-like basin. Stamens, marginal ; tube, short, funnel-shaped. 

 Stalk, long and slender, inserted in a wide, funnel-shaped cavity. 

 Flesh, tender, juicy, sweet, and with a fine aroma. Cells, ovate or 

 roundish ; axile. 



An excellent dessert apple ; in use during October and Novelnber. 



This was raised in the Royal Garden at Frogmore, near Windsor. 



FROGMORE PROLIFIC. Fruit, large, three inches and a half 

 wide, and two inches and three-quarters high ; roundish, very regular 

 in outline. Skin, smooth, of a pale greenish yellow, slightly streaked 

 and shaded with crimson on the side next the sun. Eye, rather 

 small, closed, and set in a shallow, regular basin. Stamens, marginal ; 

 tube, conical. Stalk, about an inch long, slender, very deeply 



