LIST OF OTHER CIDER APPLES. 
size, and a somewhat narrow, oblong shape, with sharp 
angles. It is valued as a cider fruit, and cooks well 
when in season. 
Siberian Bitter Sweet. —A very handsome, small, 
globular fruit, of golden colour, with a red cheek, 
growing in clusters. It is a seedling of Mr. Thomas 
Andrew Knight, produced from a seed of the Yellow 
Siberian Crab fertilized with the pollen of the Golden 
Harvey. The juice is sweet, without acidity, with the 
high specific gravity of 1*091. It has failed, however, 
as a cider apple, but is very useful for making preserve, 
or jelly. 
Siberian Harvey. — Another seedling of Mr. Knight’s, 
from the same parentage as the last named apple, and its 
juice has the same high specific gravity 1*091. It first 
fruited in 1807, when it obtained the annual premium of 
the Hereford Agricultural Society. It is a beautiful 
fruit, growing in thick clusters. Mr. Knight thought it 
would prove to be a cider apple of the highest merit, 
but it has not gained this character, and is now but 
little grown. 
Slack-My-Girdle, or Slack-ma-girl. — A striped 
Somersetshire apple of large size. It is also much 
grown in Devonshire. It keeps well and is usually sold 
for culinary purposes, though it often helps to fill the 
barrel. As a cider apple, however, it has not much merit. 
Sops in Wine.— An apple above middle size, orange 
red on the shadiest side, and very dark red towards the 
sun. The fruit has a bloom on the surface. The flesh 
is also coloured red, more or less. The tree is large and 
bears well. It is considered a good culinary and cider 
fruit. 
Stead’s Kernel.— An ovate, conical apple of middle 
size. It was raised by Mr. Daniel Stead, of Brierley, 
near Leominster. It is a late variety, yellow in colour, 
with specks and lines of grey russet. It is a valuable 
bitter sweet cider apple, with a combined sweetness and 
astringency. Its juice has the specific gravity of 1*074 
(Knight). It cooks well during its season. 
Styre, or Small Styre. — A small red apple of 
oblong shape, and yellow flesh. It makes excellent 
cider. The apples look like plums on the tree. 
Sugar Apple, or Sugar Loaf.-—A pot, or cider 
fruit, grown on every farm in the parish of Ledbury and 
its neighbourhood. It sells well in the market, but it 
“ helps to make first class cider for which it is always 
kept by those who know its virtue.” 
Sugwas Kernel. — local variety grown at Sugwas, 
near Hereford, but without any very great merit. 
Sussex Apple.—A Sussex pippin, hard in texture, 
and covered with brown russet. It has a rough, harsh 
taste, and is a good cider apple. The tree is not 
“ lucky ” in bearing. 
Sweet Rennet, or Reinette. — A green, Somerset¬ 
shire apple, of middle size. It is an early variety, and 
bears well, but has not sufficient character to make good 
cider by itself. 
Tankerton. —An apple of full middle size, white, 
with a pink cheek. The tree grows thick in the wood, 
and bears well. It is a mid-season apple, cooks well, 
and makes a fair cider. 
Ten Commandments. —A deep red, rather conical 
apple, with ribs, becoming very prominent near the eye. 
The flesh is white, stained here and there with red. 
When cut across, it shows ten red spots around the 
core, and hence gets its name. The tree bears well, 
and the fruit is thought to make good cider. 
Tremlett’s Bitter. —A Devonshire bittersweet 
apple, above middle size, and highly esteemed as a 
cider apple. 
Trace Apple, or Traced Norman.— A Hereford¬ 
shire seedling, which bears freely, and keeps well, but is 
without any very special merit as a cider apple. 
T urk’s Cap. — A large orange yellow apple, sprinkled 
with grey dots. It has an acid, astringent taste. It is 
usually sold for culinary purposes, but often finds its 
way to the cider mill. 
Underleaf (Herefordshire). — A green middle 
sized apple that may serve for table or cider fruit. The 
tree is large, the wood grow r s thickly, and the leaves 
conceal the fruit, and thus it gets its name. It is a 
good keeping apple, and usually finds its way to the 
market, but is nevertheless considered also a very good 
cider apple. 
Well Beloved. —A large handsome second early 
apple, which sells well in the market as pot fruit. It 
bakes well, but as a cider fruit, it has not much merit. 
White Grapes, or White Cluster.— A small, 
white Somersetshire apple. The tree bears profusely 
and is therefore a good cask filler, which is its chief merit. 
White Must, or Musk. —A middle sized early apple 
of a pale straw colour. The gathered fruit quickly 
becomes unctuous to the feel and has a peculiar ether 
like smell. Its flesh is so soft, that the least touch bruises 
it. It makes a thin, pleasant cooling drink for the hop- 
pickers. It will also cook well. 
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