A committee composed of members of the Herefordshire Fruit-Growers’ Association and of the Fruit and Chrysanthemum Society was appointed in 1899 to make a selection of vintage apples and pears best suited to Herefordshire and the districts adjoining.
The following is the list drawn up by the committee:
The Apples:
Old Foxwhelp Cherry Pearmain Cowarne Red Dymock Red Eggleton Styre Kingston Black or Black Taunton Skyrme’s Kernel Spreading Redstreak Carrion Apple Cherry Norman Cummy Norman Royal Wilding Handsome Norman Strawberry Norman White Bache or Norman Broad-leaved Norman and Argile Grise Bramtot De Boutville Frequin Audievre Medaille d’Or These last five being “French sorts” introduced from Normandy about 1880, and now established in the orchards of Herefordshire.Adapted from an online version of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica – Article: CIDER, or CYDER (from the Fr. cidre, derived from the Lat. sicera or cisera, Gr. mucepa, Heb. shade, strong drink)
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