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V. 
THE HAGLOE CRAB. 
Mr. Marshall, in his Rural Economy of Gloucestershire, 
is the first author who has mentioned this Apple; and he 
states it to have been raised from seed by the grandfather of 
Mr. Bellamy of Hagloe,*in Gloucestershire, aboutTOyears 
preceding the period in which he wrote, which was in 1789- 
But I have reason to believe that this variety existed at an 
earlier period, and that Mr. Bellamy's ancestor, on whose 
estate the original Tree probably grew, is rather entitled to 
the credit of having first discovered the excellence of the 
Apple, than to that of having raised it accidentally from 
seed ; for some of my friends sought in vain many years 
ago for the original Tree at Hagloe. 
Scarcely any Apple affords a finer Cider than the Hagloe 
Crab, when it grows in a dry soil on a basis of calca¬ 
reous stone, in a warm situation and season ; but under less 
favourable circumstances, the Cider it yields often retains 
too much of the crude harshness, which distinguishes the 
fruit, before it becomes perfectly mature. The Cider,however, 
generally possesses great strength and body, and the speci¬ 
fic gravity of the juice, though expressed from an unfavour¬ 
able sample of the fruit, in the present year, was 1081. 
The Trees are rarely very productive of fruit, and there are 
not many soils and situations in which the Apple is capa¬ 
ble of acquiring maturity and perfection. 
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* In the Parish of Awre. 
