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APPLE ANNIE ELIZABETH. 



WITn AN rLLUSTBATION. 



\ WARDED a First-class Certificate by the Royal Horticultural Society's 

 Fruit Committee, on the 6th of October, 1868, — such is our authority 

 for recording that the variety of which a figure is annexed is one which 

 merits the attention of the Pomologist. We have to thank the raisers, 

 Messrs. Harrison and Son, of Leicester, by whom it is being distributed, for the 

 specimens Mr. Andrews has so well represented in our illustration. 



We learn from the Messrs. Harrison that the examples hitherto exhibited of this 

 valuable culinary Apple have been obtained from the seedling plant, which has 

 hsen once transplanted, so that doubtless it will be seen much finer when obtained 

 from trees properly worked and cultivated. Its pedigree cannot be exactly 

 ascertained, but it is believed to have been obtained from the Bess Pool. The 

 tree is of upright or pyramidal habit, compact, and remarkably sturdy, the bark 

 smooth, bright, and mottled, and the leaves often acquiring very large dimen- 

 sions. It is, moreover, an excellent cropper, and the fruit is generally of large 

 size, round in its outline, but widest at the base, prominently ribbed or angular, 

 especially towards the eye, which is large, and deeply set in an irregular angular 

 basin ; the skin is pale yellow, suffused and somewhat splashed with crimson on 

 the sunny side ; stalk short, deeply set. The flesh is white, firm, but crisp and 

 tender, with a fine brisk flavour. It is commendable for its late-keeping properties, 

 the ordinary season for use being from December to June. Specimens gathered 

 in October have been kept good till the following October, twelve months 

 after being gathered, so that we may fairly state, that it is an excellent late 

 kitchen apple, and we learn that when kept till spring is of very good quality for 

 dessert. By the month of April it acquires a more decided yellow colour, with 

 much brighter crimson markings than is shown in our figure, which gives the 

 appearance of the fruit at the time it comes into use. M. 



SEASONABLE HINTS FOE AMATEURS.— NO VEMBER. 



C^jf HIS is the most disagreeable month in the whole year for out-door 

 R gardening, the days being short, and the weather in general cold and 

 damp. The beauty of the garden is gone for the season. The leaves 

 are falling in every direction, necessitating daily attention in sweeping 

 and cleaning up. There are few persons who have not admired the varied and 

 beautiful tints which many deciduous trees present before the fall of the leaf. 

 No grounds should be without some of the more striking and ornamental 

 of such trees, and I would recommend amateurs to take note of and to plant 

 some of them during the autumn ; they may be got in considerable variety in all 

 nurseries of any note. 



When the frost has destroyed all the summer plants in the beds and borders, 



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