CHAP, vn.] THE APPLE. 185 



kinds of cherries may be treated in the same 

 manner ; but they are generally preferred as 

 tall standards, in a detached orchard near the 

 kitchen-garden, or adjoining the pleasure- 

 grounds. The common kinds of plums and 

 damsons are also grown as tall trees in the 

 orchard, as are the kitchen and keeping apples. 

 Mulberry trees are generally planted on the 

 lawn, as well for the picturesque form of the 

 tree, as for the convenience of the fruit, which 

 drops as soon as it is ripe, and is spoiled if it 

 falls on dug earth or gravel. Sweet chestnuts 

 are grown in the park or pleasure-orounds, 

 among other trees ; and walnuts in similar 

 situations, or in a back court or stable-yard, 

 for the convenience of their shade. Filberts 

 and hazels are generally planted on each side 

 of a walk in the garden or pleasure-ground, 

 which they are trained over; and berberries 

 and elder-bushes in the shrubberies ; the last 

 four being the only kinds of trees which should 

 ever be planted as standards in the slips to the. 

 kitchen-o-arden. 



Kernel Fruits. — The principal of these 

 are apples and pears, but the division also in- 

 cludes the medlar, the quince, and the true 

 service. 



The Apple is universally allowed to be the 

 most useful of all fruits ; and it is certain that 

 there is no fruit more extensively cultivated. 

 The list of apples is as numerous as that of 

 peas ; and it is almost as difficult to make a 

 selection from. Apples are, however, generally 

 divided into three kinds : the dessert or eating- 

 apples, the kitchen or baking apples, and the 



