calyx. Stalk half an inch long, very slender. Skin, on the shady side, a dull, dingy-coloured, russetty grey, shaded on the sunny side with numerous streaks and patches of orange colour and muddy red.

Specific gravity of its Juice 1073.

This apple has been chiefly cultivated in the deep and strong soils of the south-west part of Herefordshire. It affords excellent cider, when mixed with other varieties.

Many of the trees are of great bulk, which prove it to have been known in the seventeenth century. Its name has, no doubt, been derived from the person who first raised it from seed.

194. BEST BACHE. Pom. Heref. t. 16.

Fruit middle-sized, of an oblong shape, with two or three obtuse angles, terminating at the crown. Eye small; segments of the calyx short and flat. Stalk short, very stiff, so that the fruit is always in the direction of the bud from which it sprang. Skin yellow, shaded and streaked with light and deeper red, with now and then a few black specks: these, however, are more to be attributed to a crowded state of old trees, than a natural appearance of healthy fruit from young trees in a state of vigour, and in a kind season.

This observation may be understood to hold good in every description of our orchard fruit.

Specific gravity of its Juice 1073.

The origin of its name cannot be ascertained; but as it has sometimes been called Bache's Kernel, it probably has originated from the name of the person who first raised it from seed. It is principally cultivated in the south-east part of Herefordshire.

195. COCCAGEE. Hort. Soc. Cat. 167. Cockagee. Forsyth, Ed. 3. No. 22.

Fruit middle-sized, conical, two inches and a half deep, and two inches and three quarters in diameter, a

little angular on its sides, which terminate irregularly in the crown. Eye small, with a closed calyx, rather deeply sunk in an uneven, irregularly plaited basin. Stalk short, inserted in a narrow, shallow cavity, not protruded beyond the base. Skin smooth, pale lemon colour quite round the fruit, with a few greenish specks interspersed. Flesh rather soft, yellowish white. Juice sharp acid, with an unpleasant astringency.

This apple produces the well known, and by some highly esteemed, Coccagee Cider. Mr. Forsyth describes it as of a red colour next the sun; but those which were given me by Mr. Kirke were perfectly free from red in every part. I had no means of ascertaining the specific gravity of its juice.

196. COWARNE RED. Pom. Heref. t. 28.

Fruit of a pretty good size, a little more long than · broad, but narrow at the crown, in which appear a few obtuse and undefined plaits. Eye small, with very short converging segments of the calyx. Stalk hardly half an inch long, very stiff and straight. Skin, a small part of it pale gold on the shady side and round the base, but of a bright red over a great part, and where fully exposed to the sun of an intense deep purplish crimson there are numerous short streaks which mark the shady side of the fruit.

Specific gravity of its Juice 1069.

The trees of this sort grow to a large size, and are great bearers. Its name arises from the parish of Cow arne, near Bromyard, in Herefordshire, where it was first raised something more than a century ago. This name does not occur in the old catalogues.

DOWNTON PIPPIN. See No. 50.

This apple sprang like the Grange Apple, and in the same year, from a seed of the Orange Pippin, and the pollen of the Golden Pippin. The original tree, with that of the Grange Apple, is growing at Wormsley

Grange, in Herefordshire. The young trees very soon come into bearing, and the fruit is excellent. Specific gravity of its Juice 1080.

197. FOREST STYRE. Pom. Heref. t. 12. Red Styre. Ib.

Fruit middle-sized, globular, not much unlike the Orange Pippin, except its being deeper, and sunk at the eye, which is nearly closed by the short, blunt segments of the calyx. The crown is regularly marked quite into the eye by ten regularly marked obtuse plaits. Stalk short, causing the fruit to sit pretty close to the branches. Skin soft yellow, shaded and marbled with

deepish orange.

Specific gravity of its Juice 1076 to 1081. The Styre, or Stire, is a native of Gloucestershire, and is planted principally in the light soils, in the neighbourhood of the Forest of Dean, where it affords a stronger cider than the deeper soils of Herefordshire. Styre cider may be found in the neighbourhood of Chepstow of thirty and forty years old. In Phillips's Poem on Cider he calls this the Stirom, a name which is now become obsolete.

198. FOXLEY APPLE. Pom. Heref. t. 14.

Fruit very small, growing in clusters of two or three together, somewhat globular, but a little narrowed at the crown. Eye not sunk, the segments of the calyx strong, narrow, and diverging. Stalk half an inch long, slender. Skin bright gold, very full of minute dots, and shaded with slight dashes and streaks of deep orange. Specific gravity of its Juice 1080.

Raised by Mr. Knight, at Wormsley Grange, from a seed of the Siberian Crab, which had been fertilised by the pollen of the Golden Pippin. Mr. Knight is induced to believe that no situation can be found in which our native Crab will grow and produce fruit, where the Foxley Apple will not afford a fine cider. It derives

its name, Foxley, from the seat of the late Uvedale Price, Esq., in whose garden, on a grafted tree, it acquired maturity. It obtained the premium of the Herefordshire Agricultural Society in 1808.

199. Fox-WHELP. Pom. Heref. t. 3.

Fruit irregular, somewhat oval-shaped, with two or three prominent angles which terminate in the eye: crown rather narrow and pointed, and the base uneven. Skin yellow and red mixed, with a good deal of deeper red streaked all over the fruit.

Specific gravity of the Juice 1076 to 1080.

The expressed juice of this is extremely rich and saccharine, and enters, in a greater or less proportion, into the composition of many of the finest ciders now made in Herefordshire, to which it communicates both strength and flavour. It has been known ever since the time of Ray, in 1688; and Mr. Knight believes it to be a native of Herefordshire.

200. FRIAR APPLE. Pom. Heref. t. 30.

Fruit of a good size, somewhat conical, being broad at its base, and tapering to the crown, which is very narrow and pointed. Eye sunk, and surrounded by four or five obtuse, but prominent plaits. Stalk short and stiff, notwithstanding which the fruit are generally pendent. Skin dull grass green on the shaded side; but where exposed to the sun, of a very dark, muddy, livid red.

Specific gravity of its Juice 1073.

This apple is cultivated principally in the north-west parts of Herefordshire. The trees are generally vigorous and productive, and in kind seasons its cider is very good. It is difficult to say from what its name has originated, as nothing more can be traced of its history. 201. GARTER APPLE. Pom. Heref. t. 26. Fruit middle-sized, oblong, tapering from the base to its crown, perfectly round in its circumference, and free

from angles. Eye a little sunk, and closed by the short segments of the calyx. Stalk short. Skin pale yellow on the shaded side, but where exposed to the sun of a bright lively red, shaded with darker streaks and patches quite into the crown.

Specific gravity of its Juice 1066.

The Garter Apple has been much cultivated during the decay of the older and more valuable varieties; and in mixing with those, though it contains but a small portion of saccharine matter, it contributes to afford excellent cider. The origin of its name is quite uncertain.

GOLDEN HARVEY. See No. 91.

The cider produced from the Golden Harvey, or Brandy Apple, is of very great strength, with little richness; it has thence been called the Brandy Apple: in a very warm situation and season, it, however, sometimes affords a most exceedingly rich cider.

Specific gravity of its Juice 1085.

There are different varieties of the apple cultivated in Herefordshire under the name of Harvey: the Golden Harvey derives its name from the bright yellow colour of its pulp.

-GOLDEN PIPPIN. See No. 26.

The Golden Pippin, although one of our very finest dessert apples, is likewise one which has ever been the most esteemed for its cider.

Specific gravity of its Juice 1078.

202. GRANGE APPLE. Pom. Heref. t. 7.

Fruit of small size, globular, round at the crown. Eye very little sunk, the segments of the calyx strong, acute, reflexed. Stalk short and thick. Skin yellowish green, a little russetted near the base with a darker greyish green, and more inclined to yellow on the sunny side.

Specific gravity of its Juice 1079.