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Fruit of small size, globular, round at the crown. Eye 

 very little sunk, the segments of the calyx strong, acute, re- 

 flexed. Stalk short and thick. Skin yellowish green, a lit- 

 tle russetted near t\\Q base with a darker grayish green, and 

 more inclined to yellow on the sunny side. 



Specific gravity of its Juice 1079. 



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

 of the Orange Pippin, which had been fertilized by the pollen 

 of the Golden Pippin, in 1791. It is a very excellent cider 

 fruit, and obtained the premium given by the Agricultural 

 Society of Herefordshire, in 1802, for the best cider apple 

 recently raised from seed. 



203. HAGLOE CRAB. Pom. Heref. t. 5. 



'Fruit small, ill-shaped, something between an apple and a 

 crab, more long than broad, wide at the base, and narrower 

 at the crown, which is a little sunk, and the eye flat. Skin 

 pale yellow, a little marbled in different directions with a rus- 

 setty gray, and having a few red specks or streaks on the 

 sunny side. Eye flat, with a spreading calyx. Stalk short. 



Specific gravity of its Juice 1081. 



The Hagloe Crab, when planted on a dry soil, with a cal- 

 careous bottom, in a warm situation and season, produces a 

 most excellent cider, both of strength and body. Mr. Mar- 

 shall states it to have been raised by Mr. Bellamy, of Hag- 

 loe, in the parish of Awre, in Gloucestershire, towards the 

 end of the seventeenth century ; but Mr. Knight thinks it 

 existed long previous to that time, as long ago the origi- 

 nal tree could not be found at Hagloe. 



204. LOAN PEARMAIN. Pom. Heref. t. 6. 



Fruit rather small, somewhat globular; the crown is 

 rather narrow ; the Eye and the segments of the calyx flat. 

 Skin pale yellow, marbled all over with orange-coloured 

 specks and streaks. Stalk about half an inch long, fleshy 

 next the fruit. 



Specific gravity of its Juice 1072. 



As a cider apple, the Loan Pearmain possesses much 

 merit, and contains a considerable proportion of saccharine 

 matter, combined with a good deal of astringency. The 

 tree is a weak grower, and is frequently encumbered with a 

 multiplicity of slender shoots. It does not appear to have 

 been known in the seventeenth century, nor can its origin 

 now be satisfactorily ascertained. 



This pretty little fruit is not the Loan's Pearmain of the 

 nurseries about London. 



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