Plate VIII. 
These several apples bear the Foxwhelp name. They have no special history, but the 
inference is that they are, what tradition supposes them to be, seedlings from the F'oxwhelp. 
2. BASTARD FOXWHELP. 
There are two or three small apples called by this name, but that which is the most esteemed 
and grown is figured here. 
Description. —Fruit, small and oblate, sometimes somewhat roundish, even and regularly 
formed. Skin, smooth and shining as if varnished, entirely covered with bright crimson, and striped 
with darker crimson on the side exposed to the sun; but on the shaded side it is greenish yellow 
striped with crimson ; the stalk cavity only is lined with russet. Eye, very small and closed, with 
short connivent segments placed in a shallow saucer-like depression ; tube, conical; stamens, 
marginal. Stalk, very long and slender at its insertion and throughout its length, but thicker at the 
end, inserted in a deep cavity. Flesh, yellowish stained with red, firm, unusually acid. Cells of the 
core, slightly open ; cell-walls, orbicular. 
The Bastard Foxwhelp bears well, and is much esteemed by some growers, who think they 
detect in the cider which it helps to make a slight Foxwhelp flavour. 
3. RED FOXWHELP. 
This apple is chiefly grown in the Bodenham and Harden districts. It is pretty, well-shaped, 
and very rich in colour. It is pleasant to eat, cooks well, and its growers value it as a cider apple. 
Description .—Fruit small, roundish ovate, even and regular in its outline. Skin, uniformly 
