PLATE LXIX. 
io. THE GRANGE APPLE. 
This fruit was a seedling of Mr. Thomas Andrew Knight’s, which sprung up in his nursery 
at Wormsley Grange, Herefordshire, in the year 1792. “ It is the offspring of the Orange Pippin, 
and the produce of a blossom, which was deprived of its stamens, and subsequently fertilized by the 
pollen from the Golden Pippin .” It is figured in the “ Pomona Herefordiensis,” Plate VII. 
Description .—Fruit : small, roundish oblate. Skin : greenish yellow, becoming of a golden 
orange colour at maturity, with numerous small black dots on the surface, with not unfrequently 
raised russety warts here and there upon it. Eye : open, with long sepals thrown back and almost 
stellate ; on a level with the surface. Stalk : half an inch long, inserted in a narrow cavity. Flesh : 
firm, crisp, sweet, juicy, and with a pleasant flavour. 
An excellent dessert apple, of great beauty ; in season during October and November. Its 
most profitable use would be to follow the Yellow and Red Ingestrie apples in the fruit market. 
Mr. Knight found the density of the fresh juice to be no less than 1079, and he accordingly 
recommended it so highly as a cider fruit, that the premium given by the Agricultural Society of 
Herefordshire for the best Cider Apple was awarded to it in 1802. It was planted extensively in 
the orchards, but has not been found to maintain its character as a vintage fruit, evidently from a 
deficiency of the tannin and salts, which are equally requisite with sugar, for the production of 
cider of the best quality. There are many trees still existing in the orchards, and the fruit, 
which should be sold for dessert, goes into the general mixture of fruit for the mill. 
The tree is very hardy, grows to a full medium size, and bears with much constancy and 
profusion. 
