Foxwhelp: Better Than French Wine | The Living Museum

Foxwhelp is one of England’s oldest named cider apples, in print since 1664. In 1727 a Devon gentleman heard that its cider could fetch £8 a hogshead in London and was often traded for French wine. In 1811 Thomas Andrew Knight predicted that grafts from the old trees would fail. He was wrong, and it still gives cider strength and flavour. Read its full story in the Living Museum at honeytreeorchard.com.
Illustrations: Thomas Andrew Knight, Pomona Herefordiensis (1811), and W. G. Smith, The Herefordshire Pomona, vol. 1, plate I (1876–85) (public domain).
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