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streaked with greenish-yellow. Stalk long and slender. Flesh 

 fibrous, with an acid, rough, and astringent flavour, and when 

 ground, runs clear and limpid from the press, and ferments very 

 slowly. The Virginia Crab is often mixed wnth rich pulpy ap- 

 ples, to which it imparts a good deal of its fine quality. 



The Roane's White Crab is a sub-variety of the foregoing, 

 about the same size, with a yellow skin. It makes a rich, 

 strong, bright liquor, and keeps throughout the summer, in a 

 well-bunged cask, perfectly sweet. 



Hagloe Crab. Lind. 



This is a celebrated old English cider fruit, scarcely known in 

 this country. Lindley says, when planted on a dry soil, with a 

 calcareous bottom, it produces a most excellent cider. The spe- 

 cific gravity of its juice is 1081. 



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

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

 crown, which is a little sunk, and the eye flat. Skin pale yel- 

 low, a little marbled in difi'erent directions w^ith a russet-grey, 

 and having a few red specks or streaks on the sunny side. Eye 

 flat, with a spreading calyx. Stalk short." 



Red Streak. Coxe. 



A capital English cider apple, which thrives admirably in 

 this country, and is very highly esteemed, as it makes a rich, 

 high flavoured, strong liquor. It is a handsome grower, and a 

 great bearer. 



Fruit of medium size, roundish. Calyx small, set in a rather 

 deep basin. Stalk rather slender and short. Skin richly 

 streaked with red, with a few yellow streaks and spots. Flesh 

 yellow, rich, firm, and dry. 



Styre. Thomp. 

 Forest Styre. Lind. Styre. Coxe. 



The Styre is a famous old English cider fruit, and Lindley 

 remarks that St3rre cider may be found in the neighbourhood of 

 Chepstow, thirty or forty years old. 



Fruit middle size, round, pale yellow, with an orange cheek. 

 Stalk short. Flesh firm, of high flavour, and makes a high- 

 coloured liquor. The tree thrives well here, and forms a very 

 upright, broom-like head. October to January. 



In addition to the foregoing, several of the table apples 

 already described are esteemed for cider, as the Newtown Pippin, 



