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in it better adapted for long transit. The soils most in favor 

 are friable surface (loam or dark sand) and clay sub-soil, or de- 

 composed rock and basaltic or tertiary formation. Great care 

 is necessary in selecting the particular site of the orchard — 

 shelter from winds and comparative freedom from spring 

 frosts, combined with clay sub-soil, being imperative requi- 

 sites, the latter to afford the necessary moisture to the tree 

 roots during our dry summers. 



'' Most of our varieties are imported from England, America 

 and France, but some few are from Tasmanian seedlings. 

 Some time ago the Fruit Growers' Association of this colony 

 offered a prize for a paper on best apple trees to plant, and 

 after careful consideration they awarded first position to Dr. 

 Benjafield's essay, who thus writes: 'To find out what fruit 

 trees are best to plant, we must first know what markets we 

 have to supply with the fruit when grown. And we may 

 speak of them as four markets : (i) The home market in 

 Hobart and Launceston ; (2) New Zealand, with its seasons 

 even later ; (3) the Melbourne, Sydney and other colonial 

 markets, which require late keeping fruits chiefly; and (4) the 

 London market, requiring good keeping and carrying fruits, 

 but fruit that will gather early. The character and appear- 

 ance of fruit, too, must be taken into account. Salesmen, all 

 the world over, tell us they must have large fruit and well col- 

 ored. If with this we can obtain quality as well, we have 

 then reached what the market requires. But the grower must 

 consider the character of the tree he is planting — is it a strong 

 grower? will it bear well? is it a good bearer every year, or 

 only alternate years ? and so on. I shall try to remember all 

 these in the sorts now to be given, best six dessert and three 

 kitchen apples, and proportion of each in the 1,000. 



DESSERT. 



Cox's Orange Pippin 400 



Sturmer Pippin 140 



Adams' Pearmain 100 



Ribston's, or King of Pippins 50 



New York 50 



Emperor Alexander 10 



COOKING. 



French Crab 100 



Wellington's 100 



Prince Bismarck 50 



