. British pomology; or, The history, description, classification, and synonymes, of the fruits and fruit trees of Great Britain ... 86 BRITISH POMOLOGY, ETC. An American dessert apple of little value ; in use Irom October to January. In the Horticultural Society's Catalogue this is made synonymous with Esopus Spitzenburgh, but it is quite a different variety. 128. FOREST STYRE.—Knight. Identification.—Pom. Heref. pi. xii- Synonymes.—Stire, Marsh. Gloucest. ii. 251. Hort. Soc. Cat. ed. 3, n. 799. Forest Styre, Lind. Guide, 104. Figure.—Pom. Heref. pi. xii. Fruit, below medium size ; roundish, i
. British pomology; or, The history, description, classification, and synonymes, of the fruits and fruit trees of Great Britain ... 86 BRITISH POMOLOGY, ETC. An American dessert apple of little value ; in use Irom October to January. In the Horticultural Society's Catalogue this is made synonymous with Esopus Spitzenburgh, but it is quite a different variety. 128. FOREST STYRE.—Knight. Identification.—Pom. Heref. pi. xii- Synonymes.—Stire, Marsh. Gloucest. ii. 251. Hort. Soc. Cat. ed. 3, n. 799. Forest Styre, Lind. Guide, 104. Figure.—Pom. Heref. pi. xii. Fruit, below medium size ; roundish, inclining to oblate, regularly and handsomely shaped. Skin, pale yellow, with a blush of red on the side which is exposed to the sun. Eye, small and closed, with short obtuse segments, set in a shallow ^nd plaited basin. Stalk, very short, inserted in a shallow cavity. Flesh, firm. Specific gravity of the juice from 1076 to 1081. This is a fine old Gloucestershire cider apple, which is extensively cultivated on the thin limestone soils of the Forest of Dean. The cider that it produces is strong bodied, rich, and highly flavored. The tree produces numerous straight, luxuriant, upward shoots, like a pollard willow ; it runs much to wood, and in deep soils attains a con- siderable size before it becomes fruitful. 129. FORGE.—H. Fruit, medium sized ; roundish, obscurely ribbed, and .sometimes nar- rowing towards the eye, where it is angular. Skin, smooth and shin- ing, of a fine gold- en yellow color, strewed with mot- tles of crimson on the shaded side ; and dark red marked with patches of deep crimson on the side exposed to the sun ; some- times when much exposed to the sun the yellow assumes a deep orange tinge. Eye, small and closed, set in an angular basin. Stalk, very short, not a quarter of an inch long, inserted in a small, round, and shallow cavity, surrounded. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanc
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