THE APPLE. ITS VAEIETIES. 165 



Perhaps there is no apple which at any period created such a sensation, 

 and of which so much was said and written during the l7th century, as 

 of the Red Streak. Prose and verse were both enlisted in its favor. It 

 was chiefly by the writings of Evelyn it attained jts greatest celebrity. 

 Philips, in his poem — Cyder, says 



" Let every tree in every garden own 

 The Red Streak as supreme, whose pulpous fruit, 

 With gold irradiate, and vermilion, shines 

 Tempting, not fatal, as the birth of that 

 Primceva!, interdicted plant, that won 

 Fond Eve, in hapless hour to taste, and die. 

 This, of more bounteous influence, inspires 

 Poetic raptures, and the lowly muse 

 Kindles to loftier strains ; even I, perceive 

 Her sacred virtue. See ! the numbers flow 

 Easy, whilst, cheer'd with her nectareous juice, 

 Her's, and my country's praises, I exalt." 



but its reputation began to decline about the beginning of the last century, 

 for we find Nourse saying, " As for the liquor which it yields, it is highly 

 esteemed for its noble colour and smell ; 'tis likewise fat and oily in the 

 taste, but withal very windy, luscious and fulsome, and will sooner clog 

 the stomach than any other cider whatsoever, leaving a waterish, raw 

 humour upon it ; so that with meals it is no way helpful, and they who 

 drink it, if I may judge of them by my own palate, will find their stomachs 

 pall'd sooner by it, than warm'd and enliven'd." 



The Red Streak seems to have originated about the beginning of the 

 I7th century, for Evelyn says " it was within the memory of some now 

 living, surnamed the Scudamore's Crab, and then not much known save 

 in the neighbourhood." It was called Scudamore's Crab, from being ex- 

 tensively planted by the first Lord Scudamore, who was son of Sir James 

 Scudamore, from whom Spencer is said to have taken the character of 

 Sir Scudamore in his "Fairie Queen." He was born in 1600, and created 

 by Charles I. Baron Dromore and Viscount Scudamore. He was at- 

 tending the Duke of Buckingham when he was stabbed at Portsmouth, 

 and was so affected at the event that he retired into private life, and de- 

 voted his attention to planting orchards, of which the Red-Streak formed 

 the principal variety. In 1634 he was sent as ambassador to France, in 

 which capacity he continued for four years. He was a zealous royalist 

 during the civil wars, and was taken prisoner by the parliament party, 

 while his property was destroyed, and his estate sequestered. He died 

 in 1671. 



289. RED STREAKED RAWLING.— H. 



^NONYME AND FiouRE. — Eawling's Fine Redstreak. Ron. Pyr. Mai. pi. x. f. 2. 



Fruit, large, three inches wide by two and a quarter deep ; roundish, 

 and slightly angular. Skin, yellow, streaked with red on the shaded side ; 

 but entirely covered with clear dark red, and striped with still darker red 

 on the side exposed to the sun. Eye, small and closed, set in a narrow 

 and plailjfed basin. Stalk, long and slender, inserted in a wide and deep 

 cavity, vfhich is lined with russet. Flesh, yellowish, tender, sweet, juicy 



