Plate VIII. 
6. MUNN’S RED. 
[Syn : The Pretty Maid; Greasy Apple 7 \ 
This Apple derives its name from that of its producer, a householder at Canon Pyon. It is 
widely grown in Herefordshire, and attracts attention in most orchards by the remarkably bright 
and glossy colour of its fruit. 
Description. —Fruit, round, sometimes slightly ovate, even and regular in its outline. Skin, 
bright red, approaching scarlet, mottled, and somewhat streaked with crimson over the whole 
surface. Eye, closed, with convergent segments, set in a pretty deep basin, which is sometimes 
even and saucer-like, and sometimes a little angular; tube, short, funnel-shaped ; stamens, median. 
Stalk, long, curved, and rather stout and woody, inserted in a very deep, round cavity. Flesh, 
yellowish, with a stain of red from the base of the eye round the carpels. Cells of the core, open ; 
cell-walls, elliptical. 
The chemical analysis of this Apple, season 1878, by Mr. G. H. With, F.R.A.S., gives the 
following results :— 
Density of Fresh Juice ... ... ... 1*0450 
Ditto after 24 hours’exposure ... ... ... 1*0456 
100 parts by weight yielded of 
Sugar ... ... ... ... ... 9*110 
Tannin, Mucilage, Salts, &c. ... ... ... 4718 
Water ... ... ... ... ... 86*172 
Notwithstanding this analysis, its cider is not deemed of first excellence. 
