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shire planters. Lord Scudamore was ambassador to the 

 court of France in the time of King Charles the First. 



210. Siberian Bitter-Sweet. Hort. Trans, Vol. vi. 

 p. 547. 



Fruit rather more than twice the size of the Siberian Crab, 

 and not unlike it in shape, but with more colour on its sunny 

 side. Mr. Knight, who raised it from a seed of the Siberian 

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

 Harvey, says it is wholly worthless, except for the press; 

 for this purpose it is highly valuable, when crushed with the 

 more austere sorts, as it contains a larger portion of saccha- 

 rine matter than any other apple known. I have tasted it at 

 Mr. Knight's, and could compare it to nothing so much as 

 to a sweet apple sliced and dipped in moist sugar. It ob- 

 tained the premium awarded by the Agricultural Society of 

 Herefordshire in 1826, for the best new variety of cider 

 apple. 



The tree is a most abundant bearer, and possesses the 

 valuable property of resisting the attacks of the white mealy 

 insect, in the same manner as the Winter Majitin of Nor- 

 folk. The Siberian Bitter-Sweet appears to have produced 

 its first fruit in 1818, as Mr. Knight says in a letter to me 

 (September, 1830,) " The original tree has borne thirteen 

 successive crops, in defiance of several very severe and de- 

 structive frosts ; and all heavy ones : the quality of the fruit 

 consequently is apt to suffer greatly, and this takes off" much 

 from its value, as overloaded trees never afford rich fruit or 

 fine cider." 



211. Siberian Harvey. Pom. Heref. t. 23. 



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 was raised by Mr. Knight from a seed of the Siberian 

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

 Harvey. It produced blossoms first in 1807, and that year 

 obtained the premium of the Agricultural Society of Here- 

 fordshire. Its juice is intensely sweet. The fruit becomes 

 ripe the middle of October, but will remain on the tree long 

 after it is ripe, and after its leaves are fallen. 



212. Stead's Kernel. Pom. Heref. t. 25. 



