The tree is healthy and vigorous, and a good bearer.
162. HAGLOE CRAB.—Knight.
- Identification.—[Pom. Heref.] t. 5. [Fors. Treat.] 106. [Lind. Guide], 107.
Fruit, small, two inches wide, and the same in height; ovate, flattened, and irregularly shaped. Skin, pale yellow, streaked with red next the sun, and covered with a few patches of grey russet. Eye, open, with flat, reflexed segments. Stalk, short. Flesh, soft and woolly, but not dry.
Specific gravity of its juice 1081.
This is a most excellent cider apple; the liquor it produces being remarkable for its strength, richness, and high flavor. It requires, however, to be grown in certain situations; a dry soil with a calcareous subsoil, being considered the best adapted for producing its cider in perfection. Marshall says, “It was raised from seed by Mr. Bellamy, of Hagloe, in Gloucestershire, grandfather of the present Mr. Bellamy, near Ross, in Herefordshire, who draws from it (that is, from trees grafted with scions from this parent stock) a liquor, which for richness, flavor, and pure on the spot, exceeds perhaps every other fruit liquor which nature and art have produced. He has been offered sixty guineas for a hogshead (about 110 gallons) of this liquor. He has likewise been offered bottle for bottle of wine, or spirituous liquors, the best to be produced; and this without freight, duty, or even a mile of carriage to enhance its original price.”
163. HALL DOOR.—Fors.
- Identification.—[Fors. Treat.] 106. [Hort. Soc. Cat.] ed. 3, n. 313. [Rog. Fr. Cult.] 57.
- Figure.—[Ron. Pyr. Mal.] pl. xxxiii. f. 1.
Fruit, large, three inches and a half wide, and two inches and three quarters high; oblate, puckered round the eye. Skin, pale green at first, but changing to dull yellow, streaked with red. Eye, set in a wide and irregular basin. Stalk, short and thick, inserted in a moderately deep cavity. Flesh, white, firm, but coarse, juicy, and pleasantly flavored.
A dessert apple of ordinary merit; in use from December to March.