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recommended to plant trees of it in cottage-gardens by 

 owners of land. 



The Hawthornden is a good cooking apple from 

 Michaelmas to Christmas. It is generally a regularly 

 formed, good-looking apple, rather above the middle size ; 

 but sometimes it is irregularly ridged from crown to 

 base. It is greenish-yellow, with a blush on the sunny 

 side, smooth, glossy skin, white flesh, and plenty of well- 

 flavoured juice. The eye is small, set deep, with plaits 

 round it ; and the stalk is slender, rather long, and set in 

 deep. The tree grows well, and bears near the ends of 

 the branches, which gives it a drooping growth ; it is a 

 very good bearer. 



Alfriston, or Sheppard's Seedling, is a fine large apple, 

 green, turning to yellow tinged with orange in ripening, 

 and with delicate russet markings. It is oblong in 

 shape, broad at the base, becoming narrower towards the 

 crown, and irregularly ribbed at the sides, one of the 

 ridges being generally larger than the rest. The flesh is 

 tinged with yellow, crisp and tender, with plenty of sweet, 

 piquant juice. It is an excellent apple and a good 

 bearer, coming in from October to Christmas. This is 

 superior in flavour to both the Codlins and the Haw- 

 thornden, although they are convenient from coming 

 earlier. 



There are several good autumn eating apples from 

 which to choose. As fine, handsome apples of large size, 

 we have the Emperor Alexander and Beauty of Kent, 

 kinds not to be surpassed ; while, as very pretty smaller, 

 apples, there are the Golden Pippin, Nonesuch, and 

 Scarlet Pearmain. 



The Emperor Alexander is a fine, large, roundish 

 apple, wide at the base, and tapering to a narrow crown. 

 It is a splendid-looking apple, greenish-yellow, with red 

 streaks but bright red and orange, beautifully varied, on 

 the sunny side. The flesh is tinted with yellow, crisp and 

 tender, with a sweet, aromatic, delicious flavour. The eye 

 is large, and deeply set in a smooth, round basin ; and 

 the stalk of medium length. It is an ornament to any 

 garden or to any table : no garden should be without it. 



