PLATE LXXII. 
4. RED BUD. 
Red Bud is a favourite name in the Herefordshire orchards, for red coloured, and otherwise 
unnamed fruit. At every apple show, three and sometimes four distinct apples have been shown 
under this name. There is nothing known definitely of the origin of any of them. They are 
probably seedlings from the orchard nursery, and propagated from their colour, and from bearing 
virtues. 
Description .—Fruit: medium size, roundish oblate, with obtuse angles, extending nearly to 
the base. Skin : smooth, bright red, much deeper on the side next the sun. It is, however, 
puckered in lines about the eye, and they sometimes run down the ribs to the base. Eye : closed, 
with reflex segments, slightly depressed, in a basin puckered with folds of the skin as well as slight 
fleshy tubercles. Stalk : thin, an inch long, set in a deep and narrow cavity, lined with russet. 
Flesh : yellow, tinged with red for some distance from the skin, soft, with a slightly acidulated taste. 
Juice : of full amber colour, viscid, and not abundant, sweet, with slight astrigency. 
The chemical analysis of the juice (1883) by Mr. G. H. With, F.R.A.S., gave the following 
results :— 
Density of the fresh filtered juice ... ... ... 1-058 
Ditto ditto after 24 hours’ exposure ... ... 1*060 
One hundred parts of the juice by weight yielded of— 
Sugar ... ... ... ... ... 11-120 
Tannin, Mucilage, Salts, &c. ... ... ... 2-080 
Water ... ... ... ... ... 86‘8oo 
The tree is hardy, grows to the full medium size, and bears profusely. 
