GARDENS AND ORCHARDS. 
the middle size ; colour, pale yellowish, sometimes a 
faint blush on one side ; flesh firm ; flavour, when ripe, 
fine ; a good eating apple ; the cyder rich, highly fla¬ 
voured, and of a good body ; price often four times 
that of common cyder. 
There are also varieties, called the red stire, the yel¬ 
low stire, and the kernel stire, which, being probably 
kernel fruit, and bearing: some likeness to the true 
stire, have had this name improperly given to them. 
2. The Hagloe Crab is next in esteem ; it was pro¬ 
duced about the year 171S, in a nursery, among other 
stocks raised from seed, by Mr. Bellamy, of Hagloe, 
in Gloucestershire, grandfather of the present Mr. Bel¬ 
lamy, near Ross, who draws from trees, grafted with 
this variety, a liquor which, for richness, flavour, and 
price, on the spot, exceeds every other fruit-1 jquor 
which nature and art have produced : he has been of¬ 
fered 60 guineas for a hogshead of 110 gallons on the 
spot; the fruit is nearly white ; when ripe it has a yel¬ 
lowish cast freckled with red on one side, about the 
size of the stire apple, but more oblong; the flesh soft 
and woolly, but not dry ; juice sweet when ripe, but 
not in great quantity; flavour resembles that of the 
Caskew apple of the West Indies; cyder rich, highly 
flavoured and coloured, notwithstanding the palenesi 
of the fruit. 
3. The Golden Pippin is more generally known than 
the last, and I believe its liquor at market is generally 
second in price, and next to the stire apple. 
4. The old Redstreak is yet in being ; fruit small, 
roundish, pale yellow, with faint red streaks; flesh 
firm, full of juice, finely flavoured when ripe : little 
genuine red-streak cyder is now made, being generally 
mixed. 
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