Plate XI. 
2. CHERRY NORMAN. 
[Syn : Hitterly.~\ 
This Apple corresponds with the Apple Moulin-a-vent, or Douce-More lie-Rouge, of the 
Normandy orchards, in every particular, but in the season of its maturity. The Cherry Norman 
is an early apple here, September or October, but the Moulin-a-vent is not mature until December. 
The French “ Report” speaks of it as a very old variety, cultivated chiefly in the Departments of 
the Orne and the Eure. 
Description. —Fruit, round, and pretty regular in its outline, occasionally a little ribbed, and 
peculiarly rounded at the base, with a small and very narrow stalk cavity, on one side of which is 
a fleshy swelling uniting the stalk on one side to the fruit. Skin, clear straw yellow, with a large 
russet cheek on the side next the sun, and a few traces of russet extending to the shaded side; there 
is sometimes a crimson or reddish orange mixture among the russet of the sunward side. Eye, 
very small, with long convergent segments placed in a shallow depression, and set round with 
prominent plaits; tube, conical; stamens, marginal. Flesh, soft, spongy, bitterish, and sweet. 
Cells of the core, slightly open; cell-walls, roundish, obovate. 
The Cherry Norman is much esteemed in our orchards. The tree grows well and freely, 
but it is apt to bear in abundance only every other year. It makes a cider of a deep colour, with a 
sweet, rich, and pleasant flavour. It is one of the best early fruits, and deserves a still more 
extended cultivation. 
Chemical analysis by Mr. G. H. With, F.R.A.S., season 1878. 
Density of Fresh juice ... 
1*043 
Density after 24 hours ... 
1 *046 
In 100 parts by weight of juice : 
Sugar 
12*830 
Tannin, Mucilage, Salts, &c. 
2-073 
Water 
85-097 
