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list. The following will be found very suitable : — Reinette du Canada, Reinette du 

 Canada Grise, Reinette Grise, Reinette de Caux, Reinette d'Espagne, Reinette tres 

 Tardive, Belle Dubois, Pornme d'Api, Mela Carla, Calville St. Sauveur, Coe's Golden 

 Drop, Newtown Pippin, Calville Blanc, Northern Spy, The Melon, Cox's Orange 

 Pippin, Duke of Devonshire, Kerry Pippin, Lodgemore Nonpareil, White Nonpareil, 

 The Mother, Early Harvest, Lord Burleigh, Beauty of Kent, Bedfordshire Found- 

 ling, Lord Suffield, Cox's Pomona, Dumelow's Seedling, Hawthornden, Tower of 

 Glammis, Winter Hawthornden, Betty Geeson, and Small's Admirable. 



Some of the best of the above are valuable keeping apples. We saw the Rei- 

 nette Grise in fine condition in the markets at Rouen last June, and Reinette tres 

 Tardive is good in July. Those who wish to plant good early apples might try 

 Barovitsky, and a few of the best early kinds ; but it is best to devote most of our 

 horizontal cordons to the growth of the finer, later, and most valuable fruits. Of 

 the above selection, the Calville Blanc, the Reinette du Canada, and Mela Carla 

 must be grown on a warm wall ; Newtown Pippin, Mother, Melon, and several of 

 the other later and liner apples, will also be grateful for the same protection. The 

 splendid Calville Blanc apples, now seen in Covent Garden and the newly-opened 

 fruit-shop in Regent Street, have all been grown against walls in the northern 

 parts of France, and not, as has been generally supposed, in some warm and para- 

 disaical spot in that country. 



In addition to the objections above stated, some are good enough to observe that 

 the cordons may, under certain circumstances, be desirable for amateurs, etc., but 

 that practically they are to be regarded as toys. If, as we believe, they will sup- 

 plant our present mode of cultivating the apple as a standard, half-standard, and 

 pyramid and bush-tree, they will prove toys only in the sense in which a guinea is 

 a toy to a penny-piece. We have urged the advantages of improved orchard- 

 culture so much that it is needless to repeat commendation of it here ; what we 

 admire in the horizontal cordon is, that it is the simplest method for doing away 

 w T ith the gouty old apple-trees which now, in multitudes of cases, shade our gardens, 

 haunt them with ugliness, and, as people rarely let them have their own way, as in 

 orchards, but keep cutting them in annually, a lasting puzzle to the pruner, who, 

 in cutting them in annually, merely makes them uglier, more vigorous, and less 

 useful. — The Field. 



OPEN-AIR ENGLISH GRAPES. 



,HE neighbourhood around Bury St. Edmund's is specially favourable for 

 the culture of the Vine. Any of the hardier varieties, such as the Claret, 

 Black Cluster, Miller's Burgundy, and the Muscardine, will thrive on 

 almost any of the houses in the town, or on the cottages for several miles 

 around it. Since the frosts of May, this hot season has been highly 

 favourable for grape-culture ; still, mildew has been more than usually prevalent on 

 starved vines out-of-doors, and on many of those which were certainly not starved 

 in vineries. It was instructive to mark the doings of the May frosts in St. Peter's 

 Vineyard, in Bury. The vineyard consists of a very high wall, with a border 

 covered with cordons near the ground ; and finally four or five rows of plants, placed 

 at a yard square, and tied up to stakes a yard high. 



The wall, from its massiveness, and the fact that a great portion of it slightly 

 overhangs, resisted the frost. The wood of the cordons had suffered considerably 

 from cold the previous season, so that in any case they would not have borne a full 

 crop. But the frost destroyed the greater portion of their fruit that did show, whereas 

 those that were further from the wall, and in colder positions, as standards, carried 

 through a full crop. Their superior altitude elevated them into a warmer region, 

 and their tops afforded sufficient protection to their colder bottoms, so that from base 

 to summit they were laden with fruit. These standards averaged twenty compact 

 bunches apiece, and a more beautiful sight could seldom be seen in England than 

 some hundreds of them heavily weighted with their luscious burdens. A gentleman 

 who had seen large tracts of Swiss and Frencdi vineyards this season, assured me 

 that he saw nothing that exceeded the health and fruitfulness of those at Bury. 



