British Pomology: Or, the History, Description, Classification, and Synonymes, of the Fruits and Fruit Trees of Great BritainHogg, Robert
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British Pomology: Or, the History, Description, Classification, and Synonymes, of the Fruits and Fruit Trees of Great Britain
Hogg, Robert
Apples
The tree is a great bearer, but tender and subject to canker.
It is well adapted for dwarf training when worked on the paradise stock.
This variety was raised by Thomas Seton Forman, Esq., Pennydarron
Place, near Merthyr Tydvil, Glamorganshire.
131. FOULDEN PEARMAIN.--Lind.
IDENTIFICATION.--Lind. in Hort. Trans. vol. iv. p. 69. Lind. Guide,
69. Hort. Soc. Cat. ed. 3, n. 541.
SYNONYME.--Horrex’s Pearmain, _acc. Lind. in Hort. Trans._
Fruit, below medium size, two inches and a half high, and about the
same broad; ovate. Skin, yellow in the shade, and clear thin red on
the side exposed to the sun, strewed all over with small russety dots.
Eye, small and open, set in a narrow and shallow basin. Stalk, three
quarters of an inch long, inserted in a round and moderately deep
cavity. Flesh, yellowish, tender, very juicy, and briskly acid.
An excellent culinary apple, and suitable also for the dessert; in use
from November to March.
This variety originated in the garden of Mrs. Horrex, of Foulden, in
Norfolk, and was first brought into notice by Mr. George Lindley, who
communicated it to the Horticultural Society, March 7, 1820.
132. FOXLEY.--Knight.
IDENTIFICATION.--Pom. Heref. t. 14. Hort. Soc. Cat. ed. 3, n. 258.
Lind. Guide, 104.
FIGURE.--Pom. Heref. t. 14.
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Fruit, growing in clusters of two or three together, very small, not
much larger than a good sized cherry; roundish, and sometimes a little
flattened, and narrowing towards the crown. Skin, deep, rich, golden
yellow on the shaded side; and bright redish-orange on the side exposed
to the sun. Eye, small and closed, not depressed, and surrounded with
a few knobs. Stalk, about an inch long, inserted in a shallow cavity,
which is lined with russet. Flesh, yellow.
Specific gravity of the juice 1080.
A valuable cider apple.
This variety was raised by Thomas Andrew Knight, Esq., from the Cherry
Apple, impregnated with the pollen of the Golden Pippin. It was named
Foxley from the seat of the late Uvedale Price, Esq., in whose garden,
where it had been grafted, it first attained maturity. Mr. Knight says,
“there is no situation where the common Wild Crab will produce fruit,
in which the Foxley will not produce a fine cider.”
133. FOX-WHELP.--Evelyn.
IDENTIFICATION.--Evelyn Pom. Lind. Guide, 105. Fors. Treat. 101. Down.
Fr. Amer. 146. Rog. Fr. Cult. 112. Worl. Vin. 162.
FIGURE.--Pom. Heref. t. 3.
Fruit, medium sized; ovate, and irregularly shaped, with prominent
angles on the sides. Skin, yellow and red, mixed with a good deal of
deeper red streaked all over the fruit.
Specific gravity of the juice 1076 when the fruit is healthy; and when
small and shrivelled it is 1080.
The juice of this variety is extremely rich and saccharine, and enters
in a greater or less proportion into the composition of many of the
finest ciders in Herefordshire, to which it communicates both strength
and flavor.
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