110 APPLES. 



Ray has both a Red and a White Must apple among 

 his cider fruit. The Red Must has been more exten- 

 sively cultivated in Herefordshire than it is at present. 

 Its cider has always been held in estimation ; and 

 although frequently thin of itself, when its fruit have 

 been pressed with others, the cider has been much 

 superior to that which could have been obtained from 

 those sorts if pressed alone. It appears to be a native 

 of Herefordshire, the deep soils of which produce trees 

 of considerable magnitude. 



209. REDSTREAK. Pom. Heref. t. 1. 



Fruit nearly globular, but narrowed at the crown. 

 Eye small, with a converging calyx. Stalk slender. 

 Skin yellowish gold colour, but of a vermillion red 

 where exposed to the sun, with deeper streaks, which 

 are more or less marked all around the fruit. 



Specific gravity of the Juice 1079. 



Mr. Knight, the author of the very interesting 

 Pomona Heref or densis, is of opinion that the Red- 

 streak was the first fine cider apple that was cultivated 

 in Herefordshire, or probably in England ; arid thinks 

 it may be doubted, whether excellent cider was ever 

 made in any country previous to the existence of this 

 apple. 



It is unquestionably a native of Herefordshire, and is 

 supposed to have been raised from seed by Lord Scuda- 

 more in the beginning of the seventeenth century. When 

 it began to be first cultivated, it was called Scudamortfs 

 Crab, and he certainly first pointed out its excellence 

 to the Herefordshire planters. Lord Scudamore was 

 ambassador to the court of France in the time of King 

 Charles the First. 



10. 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 



