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THE CANADIAN HOKTICL'LTUKIST. 



right in giving the preference in both 

 instances to good saiu{)les of Cox's 

 Orange Pipiiin. The next best were 

 Blenlieini Orange and Ribston Pi] p'w. 

 Of the three sorts Cox's is decidedly 

 the most generally profitable. It is 

 not a very vigoi'ous grower, seldom fails 

 to yield a crop ut medium sizs'l round- 

 ish ovate fruit, fairly well coloiurd, and 

 wheu ripe, say any time from October 

 to January, seldom failing to please tlie 

 most fastidious. We have very few 

 apples which possess so many excellent 

 qualities, and room sliouhl be found for 

 one or more trees in tlie smallest of fruit 

 growing gardi^ns. Blenheim Orange is 

 auother invaluable variety, being sur- 

 passed by none for culinary purposes, 

 and for dessert it is equally well adapted. 

 In our case the largest fruits are sent 

 to the kitchen, wjiile the highly coloured 

 medium sized ones are i-eserved for 

 dessert. Unfortuuately, being a very 

 vigorous grower, youug pi-uned trees 

 ai'e not fruitful ; it is when large stand- 

 ards are formed that heavy crops are the 

 result. It is really the most valuable 

 mai'ket a})ple we have, and one which 

 will command a good price when other 

 sorts will not pay for carriage and 

 salesuien's commission. The shape of 

 the fruit as well as the colour varies 

 considerably, the result probably of 

 employing different stocks rather than 

 the effect of soil. Its season is a long 

 one, frequently extending from Novem- 

 ber to the end of January. With 

 market gi'owers it is essentially a 

 Christmas aj)ple. Ribston Pippin is 

 perhaps tlie best known of the selected 

 trio. — The Garden. 



Note by the Editor. — The above 

 extract will give our readers a valuable 

 hint as to the varieties of aj)ples that 

 are most esteemed in l<]ngland and what 

 to grow for that market. All of them 

 can be grown here, and when gi'own 



here are both more highly coloured and 

 moi"(! highly ffavoi'ed than when grown 

 in England. 



LONGFIELD APPLE. 



Til is Rus.sian apjde is said to haA^e 

 been raised from seed by an English- 

 man residing on the Volga. Mr. Chas. 

 Gibb in his valuable paper on Russian 

 fruits, which will be found in the report 

 of th(! Fruit Gi'owers' Association for 

 18S3, says that it has been imported true 

 to name, having been received from 

 iMoscow by Prof. Budd of the Iowa 

 Agricultural College, and having also 

 Vjeen received by the United States 

 Department of Agriculture by the 

 numbers Ibl and o>7. He says that 

 it is a hardy tree, but not as hardy as 

 the Duchess of Oldenburgh ; that the 

 fruit is of tine quality and of a bright 

 attractive color, ripening in eaidy 

 winter, and of medium or below 

 medium size. Mi-. Tuttle, of Wiscon- 

 sin, says that on account of its regular 

 annual bearing, good quality and at- 

 tractive color, he would not hesitate to 

 plant it largely for market purposes. Mr. 

 D. H. Carpenter of Wisconsin, says that 

 the season is i'rom January to June, 

 which would seem to be much later 

 than the time of ripening indicated by 

 Mr. (jribb ; that the fruit measures from 

 three to three anil a half inches in 

 diameter, in form round, ribbed ; color 

 light yellow in the shade with a dark 

 red cheek on the exposed side ; skin 

 thin ; ffesh very white, tender, rich, 

 mild sub-acid ; quality delicious ; the 

 best of all the Russian varieties that he 

 has tasted, and in his opinion will com- 

 pare favorably in qiu'lity with the best 

 eastern varieties. The tree, he says, is 

 vigorous, healthy, hardy, and enor- 

 mously productive, and will, in his 

 opinion, soon come into general use, 

 being when everything is taken into 

 consideration decidedly the best winter 



