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and handsomest of our table apples, and is also delicious 

 for cooking. It is in use from November to March. 

 The kind was originated at Woodstock, and it soon 

 made its way and became deservedly very popular. No 

 garden should be without a tree, for, in addition to the 



foodness of the fruit, it grows well, and is a capital 

 earer ; so good that I have known old degenerate 

 trees without care produce a great quantity of small 

 fruit: its small size was, of course, in the absence of 

 careful culture. 



E-einette de Canada is another fine large apple which, 

 on account of its goodness, no garden should be without. 

 The fruit is large, broad, and flat, a fine greenish-yellow, 

 a little tinged with red on the sunny side ; the flesh is 

 yellowish- white, firm and juicy, with a brisk, high- 

 flavoured, sub-acid piquancy. The eye is rather open, 

 with a short calyx, in a cavity surrounded with prominent 

 ribs passing down the fruit half way ; and the stalk is 

 short, and set in a wide, open cavity. It is a good- 

 bearing, excellent tree. The apple comes in in Decem- 

 ber and will keep until March. It is a handsome 

 and delicious dessert apple ; and it is equally good for 

 cooking. 



The Lemon Pippin is an old-fashioned but very nice 

 apple to have. The fruit is middle-sized, oval, and regu- 

 larly formed, without angles. The eye is small, open, 

 with a short, slender calyx, and is a little depressed. 

 The stalk is short, and growing from a knob at the end of 

 the apple, which is yellowish-green in colour, turning to 

 yellow in ripening, without red or russet markings. The 

 flesh is firm, high-flavoured and pleasant, but not very 

 juicy. This, too, is an apple which is equally nice for 

 eating or cooking. The tree is hardy, an excellent 

 bearer, and a very good sort for orchards. It has an 

 erect, free, handsome growth, and the fruit is good- 

 looking, as well as fine in flavour. 



The above kinds of good keeping apples may be 

 especially valuable in small gardens, on account of the 

 fruit being either for eating or cooking. Some kinds 

 are fit only for cooking. 



