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THE GOLDEN HARVEY APPLE. 



Golden Harvey. Pomona Herefordiensis, 2 t. 22. Hort. Soc. 



Fruit Cat. no. 374. 

 Brandy Apple. Forsyth's Treatise, ed. 7. p. 95. 



This is by some supposed to be an Apple of very 

 ancient date. Trees of considerable age are said 

 to be growing on the Cotswold Hills, in Gloucester- 

 shire. By others it is doubted whether the writers 

 on the fruits of the 17th century were acquainted 

 with it, though Evelyn says, that some persons 

 preferred the cider " of the Harvey Apple (being 

 boiled)" to all other ciders ; and the Harvey Apple 

 and Russet Harvey are both mentioned by Wor- 

 lidge. These doubts are very much strengthened 

 by the fact that the Golden Harvey is even at the 

 present day but little cultivated in comparison with 

 its surpassing merits. It is, perhaps, the very best 

 of all our fruits, on which account it is probable, 

 that if of an old origin, it would have been by 

 this time more universally known. It is not to 

 be supposed, that because Worlidge names two 

 sorts of Harveys, this must necessarily be one of 

 them ; for in the cider counties there appear to be 

 three distinct kinds under that name, and the Har- 

 vey Apple of Norfolk is a sort totally different 

 from either of these three. 



