PLATE L. 
pared and wrapped up in dough serves with little trouble for making an apple dumpling so much 
in request with the Kentish farmer, for being part of a ready meal, that in the cheapest 
manner satiates the keen appetite of the hungry ploughman, both at home and in the field ; 
and therefore has now got into such reputation in Hertfordshire and some other counties, that 
it has become the most common food with a piece of bacon or pickled pork for families.” In 
Herefordshire it is certainly the favourite apple for domestic use with the labouring classes ; and 
many a good housewife who rejoices in the possession of a Blenheim Orange tree, always a favorite in 
the market, looks with still greater satisfaction on the Cat's-head trees, whose fruit she carefully 
hoards for the delectation of her family. 
The tree is a strong and vigorous grower and attains a very large size. It does not bear 
abundantly when young from its freedom of growth, but when it attains maturity it is very hardy 
and productive. 
