Plate XI. 
i. REDSTREAK. 
[Syn : Scudamore s Crab ; Herefordshire Redstreak ; Redstrake of King s Caple ; Irchinfield 
Redstrakeh] 
“ Yours be the produce of the soil: 
O ! may it still reward your toil! 
But though the various harvest gild your plains, 
Does the mere landscape feast your eye ? 
Or the warm hope of distant gains 
Far other cause of glee supply ? 
Is not the Redstreak’s future juice 
The source of your delight profound, 
Where Ariconium pours her gems profuse, 
Purpling a whole horizon round.” 
Shenstone. 
The Redstreak Apple has been the most fortunate of all cider apples for the renown it has 
obtained. It appeared at a time when great attention was paid to the Herefordshire orchards. It 
at once found a patron of remarkable energy and influence to propagate it: and its praises have 
been said and sung, in prose and verse, beyond all other kinds of fruit. It seems to have 
originated about the beginning of the 17th century, and was first brought into general notice by Lord 
Scudamore (see Introduction, Life of Lord Scudamore , p. 67). Evelyn is the first writer who 
notices it, as “ The famous Red-strake of Herefordshire, a pure Wilding, and within the memory of 
