THE RED MUST. 
The writers on orchards of the 17 th century have described 
three kinds of Musts, the red, the white, and the striped.* 
The red and white Musts were once very extensively culti¬ 
vated, and are still found in the orchards of Herefordshire; 
but the striped has disappeared, and was probably a very 
old variety in the middle of that century; for the author of 
the Herefordshire Orchard, who wrote in 1656, states that 
the planter of trees of this variety “ commonly survives to see 
the decay of his own work” 
The Red Must has, at all periods, been esteemed a good 
Cider Apple, though the Ciders latterly made with it, un¬ 
mixed with other Apples, have been light, and thin ; and I 
have never found the specific gravity of its expressed juice 
to exceed 1064. In mixture with other varieties it may 
however, have deserved the character which it has acquired; 
for it is universally admitted that a richer Cider is often 
made by mixing two or three varieties of Apples together, 
than either of those varieties, if used alone, would afford: 
and when after having ascertainedthe specific gravity of the 
juice of two varieties, the one being sweet and succulent, 
and the other dry and astringent, I have mingled the pulp 
of each in such proportions as to • afford nearly an equal 
♦ Evelyn’s Pomona, and Woriidge. 
