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never compete with the Americans with dessert varieties. Moreover our 

 surest croppers are mostly Kitchen Apples, and if Apple-growing is to 

 pay, large crops must be uniformly produced, and not at intervals of years 

 only. * Lord Suffield. — This is a very large^andsomely-shaped codlin ; 

 a free bearer, good grower, and at home anywhere in Great Britain or 

 Ireland (October to November). Keswick Codlin. — Although not so 

 handsome as the last, it is a sure cropper and a good Kitchen Apple. 

 Stirling Castle. — A very free-bearing, handsome Apple ; the growth is 

 healthy, but it is apt to bear too freely, and so fail to grow. Nourish- 

 ment, and the removal of terminal flower-buds from the young shoots, 

 coupled with the judicious thinning of the fruit, will correct this tend- 

 ency (October). ^ Cellini. — One of the very best in every respect, and 

 is also a handsome Apple (November to December). Ecklinville Seed- 

 ling.— Another of the very best. Grows to a large size, and is an im- 

 mense bearer. * Tower of Glamis. — Another Apple worth cultivating 

 in the smallest garden. It is a first-rate keeper. 



Dessert Aj^j^les. — Early Margaret. — A very free-bearing early variety 

 (August to September). "^ Irish Peach (wall). — Another first-rate 

 early kind. Emperor Alexander. — A very beautiful fruit (wall, Octo- 

 ber). * Cox's Orange Pippin. — This, on a wall, is a very valuable 

 Apple for winter use. Ribston Pippin. — This cankers, but is a uni- 

 versal favourite; it keeps well, bears well, and is by no means particular 

 to climate. We are sorely tempted to add to this list, but we really 

 think it is too long for the class for which this is written. The very 

 best kinds, from an economical point of view, are marked with an as- 

 terisk. This constitutes a second selection. 



We can scarcely hope that our selection will prove universally ac- 

 ceptable within these Islands ; but those who garden in lake districts, 

 especially if the principles of cultivation which we have endeavoured 

 to explain are carried out, may rest assured that the selection made is 

 suitable, for every one of them grows and thrives well north of the 

 Forth. Most of our notes indeed, from which we make the selection, are 

 the results obtained in a Fifeshire garden. Those who are favoured with 

 very favourable climate and soil may advantageously add to our selec- 

 tion; but our advice, in closing, is — make your selection from gardens 

 or orchards in your own locality, for very great mistakes have occurred 

 by planting trees, suitable enough in one locality perhaps, but totally 

 unsuited to the circumstances under which they were placed in another. 



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This is a dwarf-growing, early-flowering variety of the common winter- 

 flowering Chrysanthemum, with very double, medium - sized, neatly 

 formed flowers, which are borne in great profusion from July till 



