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Forest Styre
type: Cider
synonyms: Forest Stire, Stire, Stirom, Styre
identification: Medium tending to small in size and round to flattened round. The skin colour is pale yellow with a red blush on the sun exposed face. The stem is very short set in a shallow cavity. Small, round ovate. The skin base colour is yellow, covered with a wash of bright red and darker stripes on the sun explosed face and pale red streaks on the shaded face. The stem is very short to short and set in a narrow, russeted ca Character of the
origins: Reported to be a very old Gloucestershire apple, it was first mentioned in print d by John Phillips, Cyder: A poem in two books (1706). Easily propagated by planting cuttings, the Forest Styre was, during the 1800s, quite widespread in Gloucestershire’s Forest of Dean. It was also grown and highly regarded in North America where pomologist William Coxe, Jr. had a number of trees in his Burlington, New Jeresy (USA) orchard.
cultivation: Moderately vigorous. Grows quite large before it starts to fruit. It iwas one of few varieties which rooted w cuttings werestuck in earth. This was a prized Gloucestershire cider The flesh is yellow, dry and firm.The xxxx
juice character: Makes a pale yellow juice that changes to dark amber in colour, very sweet and slightly bitter.x Character of the Cider: apple which produced a full bodied, intensely flavoured cide Other
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