APPLES. 211 



SIBERIAN BITTER SWEET. Fruit, small, and nearly globular. 

 Eye, small, with short connivent segments of the calyx. Stalk, short. 

 Skin, of a bright gold colour, tinged with faint and deeper red on the 

 sunny side. The fruit grows a good deal in clusters, on slender wing 

 branches. 



Specific gravity of the juice, 1091. 



This remarkable apple was raised by Mr. Knight from the seed of the Yellow 

 Siberian Crab, fertilised with the pollen of the Golden Harvey. I cannot do 

 better than transcribe from the Transactions of the London Horticultural Society 

 Mr. Knight's own account of this apple. "The fruit contains much saccharine 

 matter, with scarcely any perceptible acid, and it in consequence affords a cider 

 which is perfectly free from the harshness which in that liquor offends the palate 

 of many and the constitution of more; and I believe that there is not any county 

 in England in which it might not be made to afford, at a moderate price, a very 

 wholesome and very palatable cider. This fruit differs from all others of its 

 species with which 'l am acquainted in being always sweet and without acidity 

 even when it is more than half (grown. " 



When the juice is pressed from ripe and somewhat mellow fruit it contains a 

 very large portion of saccharine matter; and if a part of the water it contains be 

 made to evaporate in a moderately low temperature, it affords a large quantity of 

 a jelly of intense sweetness, which, to my palate, is extremely agreeable, and which 

 may be employed for purposes similar to those to which the inspissated juice of 

 the grape is applied in France. The jelly of the apple, prepared in the manner 

 above described, is, I believe, capable of being kept unchanged during a very long 

 period in any climate; the mucilage being preserved by the antiseptic powers of 

 the saccharine matter, and that being incapable of acquiring, as sugar does, a 

 state of crystallisation. If the juice be properly filtered, the jelly will be perfectly 

 transparent. 



The tree is a strong and vigorous grower, a most abundant bearer, and a perfect 

 dreadnought to the woolly aphis. 



Siberian Crab. See Cherry Apple. 



SIBERIAN HARVEY. Fruit, produced in clusters, small ; nearly 

 globular. Eye, small, with short connivent segments of the calyx. 

 Stalk, short. Skin, of a bright gold colour, tinged with faint and 

 deeper red on the sunny side. Juice, very sweet. Ripe in October. 



Specific gravity of the juice, 1091. 



A cider apple raised by T. A. Knight, Esq., and, along with the Foxley. con- 

 sidered by him superior to any other varieties in cultivation. It was produced 

 from a seed of the Yellow Siberian Crab, fertilised with the pollen of the Golden 

 Harvey. The juice of this variety is most intensely sweet, and is probably very 

 nearly what that of the Golden Harvey would be in a southern climate. The 

 original tree produced its blossoms in the year 1807, when it first obtained the 

 annual premium of the Herefordshire Agricultural Society. 



SIEGENDE REINETTE. Fruit, about' medium size, two inches 

 and three-quarters wide, and two and a half high ; roundish and 

 depressed, inclining to roundish ovate, even in outline, but slightly 

 ribbed at the crown. Skin, rich yellow, tinged and streaked with red 

 next the sun, and with a patch of russet round the stalk ; sometimes 

 the colour is very faint or wanting. Eye, closed, with erect convergent 

 segments, which are reflexed at the tips, and set in a shallow, some- 

 what irregular basin. Stamens, marginal ; tube, funnel-shaped. Stalk, 



