Plate XI. 
Cyder in my Judgement, and such as I do prefer before the much commended Redstreak’d,” says 
Dr. Beale (1656), and Evelyn, and the writers in the Appendix to the Pomona, say as much for 
several other apples, as the Woodcock, the Hagloe Crab , the Under leaf, the Sty re, the Must, 
the Bromsborrow Crab, and some others. The soundness of this judgment was soon confirmed by 
experience, for by the end of the last century the Redstreak had quite lost all favour. Dunster, in 
his Notes to Philips Poe 7 ns, thought the true method of managing it was lost, for out of ten or twelve 
casks, seldom more than two or three proved good, and adds “it is now seldom made pure” (1791). 
And Marshall, in his Herefordshire Orchard (1796), says plainly, “The Redstreak Apple is given 
up.” And Andrew Knight speaks of it (1811), as having survived its good qualities. 
Description. —Fruit, medium sized, two inches and three quarters wide, and two inches and a 
quarter high ; roundish, narrowing towards the apex. Skin, deep clear yellow, streaked with red 
on the shaded side, but red, streaked with deeper red, on the side next the sun. Eye, small, with 
convergent segments, set in a rather deep basin. Stalk, short and slender. Flesh, yellow, firm, 
crisp, and rather dry. Specific gravity of the juice, 1079. 
The tree seems naturally to have been very short-lived. It was low and shrubby, and 
rugged in growth. Evelyn says of it, “ That as the best Vines of richest liquor and greatest 
burthen do not spend much in Wood and improfitable Branches, so nor does this tree.” 
The result of careful enquiries recently made for the true variety, was the discovery of one tree 
at King’s Capel, which was however blown down in the Spring of 1878, and Mr. Reginald Wynniat, 
of the Grainge, has kindly ascertained for this paper, that there is still one tree remaining at Kemply, 
out of the many thousands growing at Dymock and Kemply in 1714. Redstreaks there are in 
abundance, in every parish, named from their colour, and this fact was also noticed by Evelyn. 
“ The Red-Strake of King’s Capel, and those parts is in great variety, some make Cider that is not 
of continuance, yet pleasant and good: others, that lasts long, inclining towards the Bromsborrow 
Crab rather than a Red-Strake .” 
As a distinct variety the Redstreak has now ceased to exist, and it may be added that the 
loss is not to be lamented. 
