PLATE XXIX. 
2. STYRE WILDING. 
This fruit is without a history. It is widely grown, and many of the trees are more than a 
hundred years old. 
Description. —Fruit : small, conical, bluntly angular and irregular in its outline. Skin : 
smooth and shining, greenish yellow on the shaded side and with a red cheek wherever exposed to 
the sun. Eye: closed, with connivent segments, set in a pretty deep, narrow and plaited basin; 
tube, conical, sometimes inclining to funnel shape ; stamens, median. Stalk : very short, deeply 
imbedded in the cavity, which is russety, and generally with a fleshy swelling on one side of it. 
Flesh : soft and woolly, sweetish and scarcely acid. Cells of the core, open. 
Mr. With’s analysis of the Sty re Wilding apple (season 1880), is as follows :— 
Density of fresh juice ... ... ... ... 1*041 
Ditto after 24 hours exposure ... ... ... 1*044 
One hundred parts by weight of fresh juice yield :— 
Sugar ... ... ... ... ... 14*121 
Tannin, Mucilage, Salts, &c. ... ... ... 00*679 
Water ... ... ... ... ... 85*200 
This fruit ripens late. It is highly esteemed in some districts of the county, and is thought 
to give strength and flavour to the mixed fruit. With Skyrmes Kernel and the Redstreak it makes 
a very strong cider. 
The tree is very hardy and bears profusely, so that the crop is usually very heavy though the 
fruit is so small. The apples often hang on the trees like ropes of onions. It is a sure bearer every 
other year, and the fruit keeps well. 
