- Identification.—[Pom. Heref.] t. 30. [Lind. Guide], 105. [Salisb. Or.] 126.
- Figure.—[Pom. Heref.] t. 30.
Fruit, of good size; somewhat conical, being broad at the base, and narrow at the crown. Skin, dark grass-green on the shaded side; and dark muddy livid red where exposed to the sun. Eye, sunk, and surrounded by four or five obtuse but prominent ridges. Stalk, short and stiff, notwithstanding which the fruit is generally pendant.
Specific gravity of its juice 1073.
This is a cider apple cultivated in the north-west parts of Herefordshire, where the climate is cold, and the soil unfavourable, and where proper attention is never paid by the farmer to the management of his cider, which in consequence is generally fit only for the ordinary purposes of a farm-house.—Knight.
The trees are vigorous and productive.
Mr. Knight says, “The Friar probably derived its name from some imagined resemblance between its color and that of the countenance of a well-fed ecclesiastic.”
136. FULWOOD.—Hort.
- Identification.—[Hort. Soc. Cat.] ed. 3, n. 261. [Lind. Guide], 48.
- Synonyme.—Green Fulwood, acc. [Hort. Soc. Cat.]
Fruit, large, three inches and a half wide, and two inches and a half high; roundish, with broad irregular ribs on the sides. Skin, green, covered with broken stripes of dark dull red on the side next the sun. Eye, large and closed, moderately depressed, and surrounded with broad plaits. Stalk, short and slender, deeply inserted in a narrow and uneven cavity. Flesh, greenish-white, firm, crisp, very juicy, briskly acid, and slightly perfumed.
A culinary apple of first-rate quality; in use from November to March.