This is one of the oldest of our cider apples, and is enumerated by Evelyn; but is not so highly extolled as the Redstreak, and some other varieties. In Evelyn’s “Advertisements concerning Cider,” a “person of great experience,” says “Cider for strength and a long lasting drink is best made of the _Fox-Whelp_ of the _Forest of Dean_, but which comes not to be drunk till two or three years old.” By Worlidge it was “esteemed among the choice cider fruits.” 134. FRANKLIN’S GOLDEN PIPPIN.--Hort. IDENTIFICATION.--Hort. Soc. Cat. ed. 3, n. 283. Fors. Treat. 101. Lind. Guide, 15. Down. Fr. Amer. 83. Diel Kernobst. x. 92. SYNONYME.--Sudlow’s Fall Pippin, _Hort. Trans._ vol. iv. p. 217. FIGURE.--Pom. Mag. t. 137. Ron. Pyr. Mal. pl. xviii. f. 3. [Illustration] Fruit, medium sized; oblato-ovate, even and regularly formed. Skin, of an uniform deep yellow, covered all over with dark spots interspersed with fine russet, particularly round the apex. Eye, small, with long narrow segments overlapping each other, partially open, and set in a wide and deep basin. Stalk, short and slender, about half-an-inch long, inserted in a round, narrow, and smooth cavity. Flesh, yellow, tender, and crisp, very juicy, vinous, and aromatic. A dessert apple of first-rate quality; in use from October to December. The tree does not attain a large size, but is vigorous, healthy, and hardy, and an excellent bearer. It is well suited for a dwarf or espalier, and succeeds well on the paradise stock. This is of American origin, and was introduced to this country by John Sudlow, Esq., of Thames Ditton, and first exhibited at the London Horticultural Society in 1819. 135. FRIAR.--Knight. 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._