286. RED INGESTRIE.—Hort.
- Identification.—[Hort. Trans.] vol. i. 227. [Hort. Soc. Cat.] ed. 3, n. 358. [Lind. Guide], 23. [Down. Fr. Amer], 95. [Rog. Fr. Cult.] 81.
- Figures.—[Pom. Mag.] t. 17. [Ron. Pyr. Mal.] pl. i. f. 6.
Fruit, small, two inches and a half wide, and two inches and a quarter high; ovate, regularly and handsomely shaped. Skin, clear bright yellow, tinged and mottled with red on the side exposed to the sun, and strewed with numerous pearly specks. Eye, small, set in a wide and even basin. Stalk, short and slender, inserted in a small and shallow cavity. Flesh, yellowish, firm, juicy, and highly flavored.
A dessert apple of first-rate quality; in use during October and November.
This excellent little apple was raised by Thomas Andrew Knight, Esq., from the seed of the Orange Pippin impregnated with the Golden Pippin, about the year 1800. It, and the Yellow Ingestrie, were the produce of two pips taken from the same cell of the core. The original trees are still in existence at Wormsley Grange, in Herefordshire.
287. RED-MUST.—Evelyn.
- Identification.—[Evelyn Pom.] [Worl. Vin.] 162. [Pom. Heref.] [Lind. Guide], 109.
- Figure.—[Pom. Heref.] t. 4.
Fruit, nearly, if not quite, the largest cider apple cultivated in Herefordshire. It is rather broad and flattened, a little irregular at its base, which is hollow. Stalk, slender. Crown, sunk. Eye, deep, with a stout erect calyx. Skin, greenish-yellow on the shaded side, with a deep rosy color where exposed to the sun, and shaded with a darker red.—Lindley.
The Red Must has at all periods been esteemed a good cider apple, though the ciders lately made with it, unmixed with other apples, have been light, and thin; and I have never found the specific gravity of its expressed juice to exceed 1064.—Knight.