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9 . The Hagloe Crab is at present next in esteem. It was produced about seventy years ago, 
(1719) in a nursery, among other stocks raised from the seed, by Mr. Bellamy, of Hagloe, in Glou¬ 
cestershire, grandfather of the present Mr. Bellamy, near Ross in Herefordshire, who draws from 
trees grafted with scions from this stock a liquor, which for richness, flavour, and price on the spot, 
exceeds every other. The fruit is nearly white, with a yellowish cast when fully ripe, sometimes 
freckled with red on one side: more oblong than the Stire Apple; soft and woolly, but not dry; with 
a sheer, but when fully ripe, sweet juice; flavour like that of the Cashew Apple. 
10. The Golden Pippin is in high estimation. 
11. The Old Redsireak is yet in being. Fruit small, roundish, pale-yellow with numerous faint- 
red streaks; flesh firm, full of juice, and when ripe finely flavoured. Little, if any genuine Red- 
streak Cyder, is now made; and it probably never was equal to that from either of the preceding. 
The tree is of a singularly awkward growth; crooked, reclining, ragged, and unsightly. 
12. The Woodcock, another old favourite, is now going off. Fruit above the middle size: form 
somewhat oblong, set on a long footstalk: colour of the Red-streak, with some dark blood-red streaks 
on one side: flesh remarkably fine. Tree large and strongly featured, forming large boughs in the 
Pear-tree manner. 
13. Other favourite Cyder Apples are—the Must , of which there are three varieties. 
14. The Pauson: middle-sized and green. 
15. The Royal Wilding : large and white. 
16. The Dymmock Red: middle-sized and red. 
17. The Coccagee : above the middle size; greenish white with an orange blush; well fleshed anti 
highly flavoured. 
Russets of various kinds, particularly the— 
18 . Longney. IQ. Bromley, 20. Pox whelp. 21. Red. 32. Crab . 23. Queening; all large red 
fruit. 
These will yield in their turn to other varieties; and it is now a general opinion, that Apples 
which are the creatures of art and cultivation, cannot be preserved beyond a certain period. 
Mr. Grimwood, a nurseryman of eminence at Kensington, is of opinion that it is not a decline in 
the quality of the fruit, but in the tree, owing either to want of health, the season, the soil, the mode 
of planting, or to the stock which they are grafted on, being too often raised from the seed of Apples 
in the same place or county. It appears, he says, from the ablest men in his profession, that they 
never found a real decline in any one kind of fruit, but from the above causes.* 
The law of nature, Mr. Marshall observes, though it suffer man to improve the fruits which are 
given us, appears to have set bounds to his art, and to have numbered the years of his creations 
Artificial propagation cannot preserve the varieties in perpetuity. A time arrives, when they can be 
no longer propagated with success. All the old Cyder-fruits are now lost, or else so far on the 
decline, as to be deemed irrecoverable. 
The popular idea among orchard-men (in Herefordshire) is, that the decline of the old fruits is 
owing to a want of fresh grafts from abroad; under a notion that the highest-flavoured Apples grow 
there, in a state of nature, as the Crab does in this island. It scarcely needs to be observed that this 
is a gross error. 
That the first improved fruits of our ancestors were fetched from the continent is highly pro- 
bable.-f Mr. Lightfoot informs us, that the Apple is remarkable for its longevity; and that it is said 
* Bath Papers, 4. 242. 
•j- Gloucestersh. 2. 246. 
