Styre Wilding
Apple
STYRE WILDING
Origin/History
This fruit is without a documented history. It is widely grown, and many of the trees are more than a hundred years old.
Tree
Very hardy and bears profusely. A sure bearer every other year, with the crop usually very heavy despite the fruit's small size. The apples often hang on the trees like ropes of onions. The fruit keeps well in storage.
Fruit
Size and Form: Small, conical, bluntly angular and irregular in outline.
Skin: Smooth and shining, greenish yellow on the shaded side and with a red cheek wherever exposed to the sun.
Eye: Closed, with connivent segments, set in a pretty deep, narrow and plaited basin. Tube conical, sometimes inclining to funnel shape; stamens median.
Stalk and Cavity: Very short, deeply embedded in the cavity, which is russety, and generally with a fleshy swelling on one side of it.
Flesh and Flavor: Soft and woolly, sweetish and scarcely acid.
Core: Cells of the core open.
Season
Ripens late.
Uses
Highly esteemed in some districts of the county and thought to give strength and flavor to mixed fruit. With Skyrmes Kernel and the Redstreak it makes a very strong cider.
Other
Chemical Analysis (1880): Mr. With's analysis of fresh juice from the Styre Wilding apple (season 1880):
| Measurement | Value |
|---|---|
| Density of fresh juice | 1.041 |
| Density after 24 hours exposure | 1.044 |
| Sugar (per 100 parts by weight) | 14.121 |
| Tannin, Mucilage, Salts, &c. | 0.679 |
| Water | 85.200 |
Book Sources
Described in 1 period pomological work
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— Woolhope Naturalists Field Club, The Herefordshire Pomona (1885)STYRE WILDING.
This fruit is without a history. It is widely grown, and many of the trees are more than a hundred years old.
Description.—Fruit : small, conical, bluntly angular and irregular in its outline. Skin : smooth and shining, greenish yellow on the shaded side and with a red cheek wherever exposed to the sun. Eye: closed, with connivent segments, set in a pretty deep, narrow and plaited basin; tube, conical, sometimes inclining to funnel shape ; stamens, median. Stalk : very short, deeply imbedded in the cavity, which is russety, and generally with a fleshy swelling on one side of it. Flesh : soft and woolly, sweetish and scarcely acid. Cells of the core, open.
Mr. With's analysis of the Styre Wilding apple (season 1880), is as follows :—
Density of fresh juice ... ... ... ... 1·041 Ditto after 24 hours exposure ... ... ... 1·044 One hundred parts by weight of fresh juice yield :— Sugar ... ... ... ... ... 14·121 Tannin, Mucilage, Salts, &c. ... ... ... 00·679 Water ... ... ... ... ... 85·200
This fruit ripens late. It is highly esteemed in some districts of the county, and is thought to give strength and flavour to the mixed fruit. With Skyrmes Kernel and the Redstreak it makes a very strong cider.
The tree is very hardy and bears profusely, so that the crop is usually very heavy though the fruit is so small. The apples often hang on the trees like ropes of onions. It is a sure bearer every other year, and the fruit keeps well.