An excellent apple of first-rate quality, desirable either for the dessert or for culinary purposes; it is in use from September to January. The tree is a strong grower, vigorous, hardy, and an excellent bearer. It succeeds well as a dwarf on the paradise stock. This is a favorite apple in Scotland, where it ranks among the best dessert fruits. 161. GROS FAROS.--Duh. IDENTIFICATION.--Duh. Arb. Fruit. i. 385. Schab. Prat. ii. 90. Hort. Soc. Cat. ed. 3, n. 244. SYNONYME.--Faros, _acc. Hort. Soc. Cat._ Fruit, medium sized, two inches and a half wide, and two inches high; roundish and flattened, broadest at the base, and narrowing towards the eye, sometimes slightly angled. Skin, smooth, pale greenish-yellow, with a few streaks of red where shaded; and entirely covered with red, which is striated with deeper red where exposed to the sun. Eye, small and open, set in a narrow, round, and rather deep basin. Stalk, half-an-inch long, inserted in a wide and deep cavity, which is lined with dark brown russet. Flesh, greenish-white, crisp, firm, juicy, sweet, slightly acid, and perfumed. A dessert apple of good but not first-rate quality; in use from December to March. 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.