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is nearly closed by the short, blunt segments of the calyx. 

 The crown is regularly marked quite into the eye by ten re- 

 gularly marked obtuse plaits. Stalk short, causing the fruit 

 to sit pretty close to the branches. Skin soft yellow, shaded 

 and marbled with deepish orange. 



Specific gravity of its Juice 1076 to 1081. 

 The Styre, or Stire, is a native of Gloucestershire, and is 

 planted principally in the light soils, in the neighbourhood of 

 the Forest of Dean, where it affords a stronger cider than 

 the deeper soils of Herefordshire. Styre cider may be found 

 in the neighbourhood of Chepstow of thirty and forty years 

 old. In Phillips's Poem on Cider he calls this the Stirom, 

 a name which is now become obsolete. 



198. FOXLEY APPLE. Pom. Htref. t. 14. 

 Fruit very small, growing in clusters of two or three to- 

 gether, somewhat globular, but a little narrowed at the 

 crown. Eye not sunk, the segments of the calyx strong, 

 narrow, and diverging. Stalk half an inch long, slender. 

 Skin bright gold, very full of minute dots, and shaded with 

 slight dashes and streaks of deep orange. 

 Specific gravity of its Juice 1080. 



Raised by Mr. Knight, at Wormsley Grange, from a seed 

 of the Siberian Crab, which had been fertilized by the pollen 

 of the Golden Pippin. Mr. Knight is induced to believe 

 that no situation can be found in which our native Crab will 

 grow and produce fruit, where the Foxley Apple will not 

 afford a fine cider. It derives its name, Foxley, from the 

 seat of the late Uvedale Price, Esq., in whose garden, on a 

 grafted tree, it acquired maturity. It obtained the premium 

 of the Herefordshire Agricultural Society in 1808. 

 199. FOX-WHELP. Pom. Heref. t. 3. 

 Fruit irregular, somewhat oval-shaped, wi h two or three 

 prominent angles which terminate in the eye : crown rather 

 narrovy and pointed, and the base uneven. Skin yellow and 

 red mixed, with a good deal of deeper red streaked all over 

 the fruit. 



Specific gravity of the Juice 1076 to 1080. 

 The expressed juice of this is extremely rich and saccha- 

 rine, and enters, in a greater or less pro ortion, into the com- 

 position of many of the finest ciders now made in Hereford- 

 shire, to which it communicates both strength and flavour. 

 It has been known ever since the time of Ray, in 1688 ; and 

 Mr. Knight believes it to be a native of Herefordshire. 

 200. FRIAR APPLE. Pom. Heref. t. 30. 

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