Plate VIII. 
MISCELLANEOUS CIDER FRUIT. 
“ The autumnal season plesaunce blithe affords, 
NOW THE SQUEEZ’D PRESS FOAMS WITH OUR APPLE HOARDS ; 
Come, let us hie and quaff a cheery bowl, 
Let cider new, wash sorrow from the soul.” 
Gay. 
i. REJUVENATED FOXWHELP. 
[Syn : The Canon Apple; Crowes KernelC\ 
This apple is one of peculiar interest in Herefordshire, and is therefore represented here. 
The epithet “ new ” will be used in treating of it but merely to prevent any confusion in discussing 
the question, as to whether it is “ new,” that is, a seedling ; or whether it is the true “ old ” Foxwhelp 
restored to a flourishing rejuvenated form by a careful system of grafting and regrafting. This is a 
question that has been warmly discussed by the growers for some years past. 
At first sight the distinction between them seems very marked ; both the tree of the “ new ” 
Foxwhelp and its apple, are much more luxuriant than the “old” Foxwhelp. The apple of the 
“ new ” Foxwhelp is not only larger, but in its general character it is broad in shape—or in other 
words, its lateral is greater than its longitudinal diameter—whilst the apple of the “ old ” Foxwhelp 
is smaller and usually oblong in shape ; but on a careful examination of the trees of either kind the 
apples are so similar in shape and appearance that it would be impossible to distinguish them if 
thrown together. The difference in size and shape is due simply to the improved vitality and 
luxuriance of growth of the tree. The points of similarity between them are very striking. 
There is the same brilliant colour ; the same tough, leather-like skin ; the same eye ; the same long 
slender stalk set in its deep narrow channel; and to this it may be added they have the same period 
