388 Oil the Cultivation of Orchards, and 
of satisfactory precision. There can be no question that the 
quality of cider very much depends upon the kind of fruit em- 
ployed, and the quality of the same fruit is much influenced both 
by the soil and the aspect of the orchard. 
Knight observes that those apples only which are of a yellow 
colour, or a mixture of yellow and red, are pi'oper for making the 
finest kind of cider ; but the c(uality of all cider is very much in- 
fluenced by the different processes practised in its manufacture, 
which will be treated of in due course. It would be quite in- 
compatible M'ith the necessary brevity of a treatise of this kind to 
notice half the apples that are cultivated and recommended, as 
such notice, even in a tabular form, would occupy a volume. 
We shall therefore only give a short list of some excellent kinds 
which are still in vigorous growth, and which are recommended 
by INIr. Knight as amongst the very best of our cider fruit ; and 
also a list of a few of the best specimens of table and kitchen 
fruit recommended by Forsyth : — 
Cider Apples. 
Grange Apple . = Yellow; a prize apple, raised by Mr. Knight. 
Orange Pippin . . Red and yellow ; aa excellent and beautiful fruit. 
Downton Pippin . . Yellow ; a very fine bearer, and also of first 
quality for the table. 
Foxley Apple . . Red and yellow; a prize apple; small; numerous. 
Best Bache . 
Yellow Elliot . . Yellow, with a red tint ; juice astringent ; of ex- 
cellent quality for the press. 
Bennete Apple . 
Golden Harvey . . Red and patchy ; very valuable both for the press 
and tlie table; juice very heavy. 
Siberian Harvey . . Red and yellow streaked; very sweet; excellent 
for the press ; juice very heavy (1095). 
Stead's Kernel . . Yellow; a fine fruit both for the press and table. 
Garter Apple ' . . Red streaked ; large and liandsome. 
Cowarne Red Ajiple . Red ; large, and much cultivated. 
Tabic and Kitchen Apples, described and rccomincnded 
by Forsyth. 
Jenneting • < . Yellow ; small, early ; July. 
Codling . . • . Baking; idem; idem, 
Margaret Apple . . Delicate ; sweet ; August. 
Kentish Fill-basket . Baking; large; August. 
Soan's Pearmain . Red ; fine fruit ; September. 
Golden Rennet . . Good table fruit ; Michaelmas. 
Aromatic Pippin . Bright russet ; aromatic flavour. 
Winter Pearmain . Juicy ; store well ; December. 
Kentish Pippin . . Kitchen apple ; good keeper. 
Monstrous Rennet . Red and green ; large. 
