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No 140
Hagloe Crab (English Cyder)

The next apple to the Stire in public estimation
in England. See Marshall Vol 2 pa 252.3.4

This variety was first produced from the seed sowed
about the year 1718 by Mr Bellamy in Gloucestershire.
The liquor drawn from trees grafted from the parent
stock exceeds for richness, flavor and price every other
fruit liquor which nature and art have produced.
Sixty guineas have been offered for a hogshead of
about 110 gallons. Bottle for bottle of wine and
spiritous liquors have likewise been offered for it.

The fruit while growing is nearly white;
when fully ripe it has a yellowish cast;
sometimes freckled with red on one side,
likek the common white crab. The size about
that of the Stire apple; but the form more
oblong. The flesh remarkably soft and
woolly, but not dry; being furnished
with a sheer, but, when fully ripe, sweet
juice; which however is much smaller in
proportion to the quantity of fibrous matter
than that of most other apples. The flavor
when ripe resembles that of the cashew
apple of the West Indies; and what is
remarkable the texture of the flesh is
not unsimilar to the pulp of that fruit.
The cider notwithstanding the sheerness of
the juice, is, when properly manufactured
singularly rich; and notwithstanding the 
faint smell of the apple, is highly flavoured.
And what is equally remarkable, the
liquor is of the highest colour, notwithstanding
the paleness of the fruit.  Marshall p. 254. Vol 2.
Succeeds best on sandy soils. Is a very early
bearer, small trees in the nursery producing the second year
from the inoculation. A tree on my Rosanna farm inoculated
1807 August, has this year 1809 eleven apples on. Mr Marshall
pa 390 vol 2 says it requires near one third of the Hagloe more than
of common apples to make a barrel of Cider. [illegible] it requires
3 bbls [barrels] of apples for one of cider the same of the Stires.

[marginalia]
August 1830 This year sent             Baskets of Hagloes by Rodman & Fenimore
44 [illegible] from S East & 20 from SW Orcd [Orchard] occupying 1½ acre & [illegible] of ground which produced
me for my half after deducting Porterace = $ or p p tree or $ p acre
        