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sircaked 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 with rich pulpy ap- 
ples, to which it imparts a good deal of its fine quality. 
The Roayn’s Wuirz Cras is asub-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 swéet. — - 
Hacuoz Cras. 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 hottom, 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 different directions with a russet-grey, 
and having a few red specks or streaks on the sunny side. Eye 
flat, with a spreading calyx. Stalk short.” 
Rep Srreagx. Coxe. 
Herefordshire Red Str . 
Scudamore’s Crab, on hor nies Gaetan: 
A capital English cider\apple, which thrives admirably in 
this country, and is very highly ésteemed, as it makes a rich, 
high flavoured, strong Jiquor. It is a handsome grower, and a 
great bearer. Seyi 
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. 
’ Sryrz. Thomp. 
Forest Styre. Lind. Styre,- Coxe. 
The Styre is a. famous old English cider fruit, and Lindley 
remarks that Styre 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, 
