THE GOLDEN HARVEY A P P L E .
Golden Harvey. Pomona Herefordiensis, 2 t. 22. Hort. Soc.
Fruit Cat. no. 374.
Brandy Apple. Forsyth’s Treatise, ed. 7. p . 95.
This is by some supposed to be an Apple of very
ancient date. Trees of considerable age are said
to be growing on the Cotswold Hills, in Gloucestershire.
By others it is doubted whether thie writers
Olí the fruits of the 17th century were acquainted
with it, though Evelyn says, that some persons
preferred the cider of the Harvey Apple (being-
boiled)” to all other c id e rs; and the Harvey Apple
and Russet Harvey are both mentioned by Wor-
lidge. These doubts are very much strengthened
by the fact that the Golden Harvey is even at the
present day but little cultivated in comparison with
its surpassing merits. I t is, perhaps, the very best
of all our fruits, on which account it is probable,
that if of an old origin, it would have been by
this time more universally known. I t is not to
be supposed, th a t begause Worlidge names two
sorts of Harveys, this must necessarily be one of
th em ; for in the cider counties there appear to be
three distinct kinds under th a t name, and the H a rvey
Apple of Norfolk is a sort totally different
from ''either of these three.