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This, of more bounteous influence, inspires 

 Poetic raptures, and the lowly muse 

 Kindles to loftier strains ; even I, perceive 

 H r sacred virtue. See ! the numbers How 

 Easy, whilst, cheer* d with her nectareous juice, 

 Hers, and nay country's praises, I exalt." 



B'it its reputation began to decline about the beginning of the last century, for we 

 find Xourse saying, <* As for the liquor which it yields, it is highly esteemed for its 

 noble colour and smell ; 'tis likewise fat and oily in the taste, but withal very 

 windy, luscious, and fulsome, and will sooner clog the stomach than any other cider 

 whatsoever, leaving a waterish, raw humour upon it ; so that with meals it is no 

 way helpful, and they who drink it, if I may judge of them by my own palate, will 

 tind their stomachs pall'd sooner by it, than warm'd and enliven'd." 



The Ked-streak seems to have originated about the beginning of the 17th century, 

 for Evelyn says " it was within the memory of some now living surtmmed the 

 Scudamore's Crab, and then not much known save in the neighbourhood." It was 

 called Si-udamure's Grub from being extensively planted by the first Lord Scuda- 

 more, who was son of Sir Jan.es Scudamore, from whom Spenser is said to have 

 taken the character of Sir Scudamore in his " Faerie Queen." He was born in 

 1600, and created by Charles I. Baron Dromore and Viscount Scudamore. Ilr 

 was attending the Duke of Buckingham when he was stabbed at Portsmouth, and 

 was so affected at the event that he retired into private life, and devoted his 

 attention to planting orchards, of which the Red-streak formed the principal 

 variety. In 1634 he was sent as ambassador to France, in which capacity he con- 

 tinued for four years. He was a zealous Royalist during the civil wars, and was 

 taken prisoner by the Parliament party, while his property was destroyed, and his 

 estate sequestered. He died in 1671. 



RED STREAKED BAWLING. Fruit, large, three inches wide, 

 by two and a quarter high ; roundish, and slightly angular. Skin, 

 yellow, streaked with red on the shaded side, but entirely covered 

 with clear dark red, and striped with still darker red, on the side 

 exposed to the sun. Eye, small and closed, set in a narrow and 

 plaited basin. Stalk, long and slender, inserted in a wide and deep 

 cavity, which is lined with russet. Flesh, yellowish, tender, sweet, 

 juicy, and well flavoured, abounding in a sweet and pleasant juice. 



A culinary apple, well adapted for sauce ; it is in use from October 

 to Christmas. 



This is an old Devonshire apple, and no doubt the Sweet Rawling referred to 

 in a communication to one of Bradley's " Monthly Treatises," from which the 

 following is an extract : " We have an apple in this country called a Rawling, 

 of which there is a sweet and a sour ; the sour when ripe (which is very early) is 

 a very fair large fruit, and of a pleasant taste, inclined to a golden colour, full of 

 narrow red streaks ; the Sweet Rawling has the same colours but not quite so 

 large, and if boiled grows hard, whereas the sour becomes soft. Now what 1 have 

 to inform you of is, viz.: I have a tree which bears both sorts in one apple ; one 

 side of the apple is altogether sweet, the other side sour ; one side bigger than the 

 other ; and when boiled the one side is soft, the other hard, as all sweet and sour 

 apples are." 



RED STYRE. Fruit, small, two inches to two and a half wide, 

 and two inches high ; roundish ovate, inclining to oblate, even and 

 regular in its outline. Skin, smooth and shining, entirely covered with 

 very dark crimson, almost approaching mahogany, but paler on the 

 shaded side, the whole mottled with broken bright yellow streaks ; round 



