3 2 Fruits and Fruit- Trees. 



hot and foamy, bubbling, fragrant one, full of comeliness 

 and romance, fresh from the side or front of the fire, 

 ipsissima and bond fide shall come back to the place it 

 always ornamented and honoured, and the heart be 

 moved to ejaculate once again, " Blessed be the man 

 who invented roasted apples." 



Among dessert kinds of corresponding merit for general 

 purposes may be specially recommended the Claygate 

 Pearmain, Scarlet Pearmain, Worcester Pearmain, Adam's 

 Pearmain, Golden Reinette, Red Astrachan, Early Har- 

 vest, Duchess of Oldenburgh, Devonshire Quarrenden, 

 and Seek-no-further. 



Much depends, as regards success in apple-culture, 

 upon the judicious care exercised in the original planting 

 of the trees ; remembering, at the outset, that apples like 

 a dry subsoil, and that to hope for good results upon 

 badly-drained land is out of the question. Apple-trees 

 have no love for the banks of streams, nor for any kind 

 of low-lying situation, since it is here that fogs and spring 

 frosts are likely to be most harmful. A south-west aspect, 

 with tendency to due south, is their delight as to point of 

 the compass. If the situation be somewhat exposed, and 

 anything of the nature of an orchard be intended, the 

 trees should be planted rather near together, say about 

 eighteen feet apart. In sheltered situations, and where 

 the soil is kindly, the distance should be about thirty feet 

 one from the other. In either case the lines of trees 

 should be planted not in such a way that every four 

 trees shall make a square, but after the manner called 



