Fruits and Fridt- Trees. 



" King of the Pippins," the victor over all, is an apple 

 renowned for its free and constant bearing qualities, and 

 the abundance of the crop even upon very young trees. 

 Scotland, however, claims for its best the "Ribston 

 Pippin," " King of the Pippins " standing only second, 

 and "Cox's Orange" considerably lower in the scale. 

 This may come of the last-named not succeeding so well 

 in the northern parts of the island as in the southern, or 

 it may not be so well known. In Ireland the two finest 

 varieties of dessert apple are considered, as shown by the 

 votes, to be "Irish Peach" and "Summer Strawberry." 

 To describe these various kinds is, in the present place, 

 quite impossible. Their manifold shapes, colours, and 



