A Red Rarity
Among several rather surprising requests that have reached me this week is one from Canada, asking for a graft or even a few seeds of " the bloody Turk," which is a cider apple that, like the Quarrenden, is more or less red all through. Some year or two ago I raised a hue and cry for this almost vanished apple ; and a tree or two was discovered. As a result the strange variety was, I believe, added to the sixty or so odder or rarer varieties that have been preserved in a sort of museum orchard kept by a cider-maker of fame at Hereford. If anyone should think of sending apple-seeds to any distance it is well to remember that the pips, unlike most seeds must be kept damp. If dried, they perish within very brief space ; if kept moist, they may germinate to a hundred per cent.
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