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Raised at Wormsley Grange by Mr. Knight, from a 

 seed of the Orange Pippin, which had been fertilised 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 russetty grey, 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 calcareous bottom, in a warm situation and season, 

 produces a most excellent cider, both of strength and 

 body. Mr. Marshall states it to have been raised by 

 Mr. Bellamy, of Hagloe, in the parish of Awre, in 

 Gloucestershire, towards the end of the seventeenth 

 century ; but Mr. Knight thinks it existed long pre- 

 vious to that time, as long ago the original 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 saccha- 

 rine matter, combined with a good deal of astringency. 

 The tree is a weak grower, and is frequently encum- 

 bered with a multiplicity of slender shoots. It does not 



