188 THE FRUIT MANUAL. 



inches high ; roundish, inclining to oblate, and sometimes to ovate, 

 angular. Skin, almost entirely covered with dark crimson, except on 

 the shaded side, where it is yellow, the surface sprinkled with russet 

 dots. Eye, quite closed, with convergent segments. Stamens, median ; 

 tube, funnel-shaped. Stalk, short and slender, inserted in a rather 

 deep cavity. Flesh, white, tender, and pleasantly sub-acid. Cells, 

 open, obovate, small ; axile. 



A favourite cider apple of Gloucestershire. 



RED SPLASH (New Bromley). Fruit, small, two inches and an 

 eighth wide, and one inch and five-eighths high ; roundish oblate, and 

 regularly formed. Skin, golden yellow, with a few streaks of crimson 

 on the shaded side, and completely covered with crimson on the ex- 

 posed side, where it is also splashed with broken streaks of dark 

 mahogany colour. Eye, closed, with broad, flat, convergent segments, 

 reflexed at the tips, set in a wide, saucer-like basin. Stamens, median ; 

 tube, short, funnel-shaped. Stalk, a quarter to half an inch long, 

 slender, set in a pretty wide cavity. Flesh, yellowish, juicy, sweet, 

 and agreeably flavoured. Cells, roundish, inclining to obovate ; axile. 



This is grown very largely at Newland, near Malvern, and all the 

 surrounding parishes, and is sold to the pickle-makers to make chutney 

 and apple jelly. 



RED-STREAK (Herefordshire Red-streak ; Scudamore's Crab). 

 Fruit, medium sized, two inches and three-quarters wide, and two 

 inches and a quarter high ; roundish, or inclining to oblate, narrowing 

 towards the apex, even and regular in outline. Skin, deep clear yellow, 

 streaked with red, on the shaded side, but deep red, streaked with still 

 deeper red, approaching dark mahogany colour, on the side next the 

 sun ; the surface is strewed with specks and small patches of cinna- 

 mon-coloured russet, and especially round the stalk there is a patch 

 tinged with green. Eye, small and closed, with short convergent 

 segments, set in a rather shallow basin. Stamens, marginal ; tube, 

 funnel-shaped. Stalk, short and slender, sometimes a mere knob. 

 Flesh, yellow, firm, crisp, and rather dry, briskly acid, and with a 

 rough flavour. Cells, slightly obovate, small ; axile. 



Specific gravity of the juice, 1079. 



A cider apple, which at one period was unsurpassed, but now com- 

 paratively but little cultivated. 



Perhaps there was no apple which at any period was in such great favour, 

 and of which so much was said and written during the 17th century, as of the 

 Red-streak. Prose and verse were both enlisted in its praises. It was chiefly 

 by the writings of Evelyn it attained its greatest celebrity. Philips, in his pjem, 

 Cyder, says 



" Let every tree in every garden own 

 The lied Streak as supreme, whose pulpous fruit, 

 With gold irradiate, and vermilion, shines 

 Tempting, not fatal, as the birth of that 

 Primaeval, interdicted plant, that won 

 Fond Eve, in hapless hour to taste, and die. 



