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the saccharine matter, and that being incapable of acquiring, as sugar does, a 

 state of crystallisation. If the juice be properly filtered, the jelly will be perfectly 

 transparent. 



The tree is a strong and vigorous grower, a most abundant bearer, and a perfect 

 dreadnought to the woolly aphis. 



Siberian Crab. See Cherry Apple. 



SIBERIAN HARVEY.— Fruit, produced in clusters, small ; 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. Juice, very sweet. Ripe in October. 



Specific gravity of the juice, 1091. 



A cider apple raised by T. A. Knight, Esq., and, along with the Foxley, con- 

 sidered by him superior to any other varieties in cultivation. It was produced 

 from a seed of the Yellow Siberian Crab, fertilised with the pollen of the Golden 

 Harvey. The juice of this variety is most intensely sweet, and is probably very 

 nearly what that of the Golden Harvey would be in a southern climate. The 

 original tree produced its blossoms in the year 1807, when it first obtained the 

 annual premium of the Herefordshire Agricultural Society. 



SIELY'S MIGNONNE (Pride of the Ditches).~Frmi, rather smaU, 

 about one inch and three quarters deep, and the same in diameter ; 

 almost globular, but occasionally flattened on one side. Eye, small, 

 with a closed calyx, placed somewhat deeply in a rather irregularly 

 formed narrow basin, surrounded by a few small plaitsi Stalk, half an 

 inch long, slender, about one half within the base, in a narrow cavity, 

 and occasionally pressed towards one side by a protuberance on the 

 opposite one. Skin, when clear, of a bright yellow, but mostly 

 covered with a grey netted russet, rendering the skm scabrous. Flesh, 

 greenish yellow, firm, crisp, and tender. Juice, saccharine, highly 

 aromatic, and of a most excellent flavour. 



A dessert apple ; in use from November to February. The tree is a 

 weak grower, and somewhat tender. It is therefore advisable to graft 

 it on the doucin stock, and train it either as a dwarf or as an espalier 

 in a garden. 



This neat and very valuable little apple was introduced to notice about the 

 beginning of the present century by the late Mr. Andrew Siely, of Norwich, who 

 had it growing in his garden on the Castle Ditches ; and, being a favourite with 

 him, he always called it the "Pride of the Ditches." 



Simpson's Pippin. See Ord's Apple. 



SIR WALTER BLACKETT'S {Edinburgh Cluster). —-Exmi, small, 

 roundish-ovate. Skin, pale lemon-yellow, very much dotted with pale 

 brown russet, and patches of the same, particularly round the base, 

 and with a faint orange tinge next the sun. Eye, small and closed, 

 set in a plaited basin. Stalk, long, deeply inserted. Flesh, white, 

 tender, juicy, and brisk, with a peculiar aroma. 



A first-rate dessert apple for the northern districts. It is in use 

 from November to January. 



