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11. HerefordsLire Pearmain. 



12. Winter Pearmain. 



13. Bedfordshire Foundling. 



14. Greave's Pippin. 



15. Dumelow's Seedling. 



16. Forge Apple. 



17. Rymer. 



18. Baxter's Pearmain. 



19. St. Sauveur. 



20. Gooseberry Apple. 



Mr. Elvers especially recommends Nos. 1, 3, 6, 9, 11, 

 13, 15, 18, 19, and 20. 



Cellini is a good apple, fit to use in October. Blen- 

 heim Pippin is the same as Blenheim Orange. The 

 "Waltham Abbey Seedling is a large, handsome apple, 

 useful from September to January. It is yellow and 

 showy, a little like the Golden Noble. The Bedford- 

 shire Foundling, or Cambridge Pippin, is another large, 

 handsome apple, which keeps until March. Dumelow's 

 Seedling is the Wellington Apple. The Forge Apple 

 keeps until March. Eymer is a Yorkshire variety, 

 in use in November and December : it is a good size, 

 yellow, and good in flavour, and becomes very rich in 

 baking. The Gooseberry Apple, or Gooseberry Pippin, 

 is excellent for keeping, having been kept until 

 August. 



Apple trees grown as bushes are so ornamental, 

 the fruit on them is so safe from high wind, the trees 

 are so easy to cultivate, and the fruit so easy to gather, 

 so completely under control, that little more need be 

 said in their favour. None, too, who can appreciate good 

 fruit of fine flavour should grow indifferent apples, as it 

 must never be forgo tton that trees of first-class kinds 

 take no more room, and give no more trouble in their 

 cultivation, than the most indifferent cider apples. 



Even for cider, the best judges declare that apples of 

 the finest sorts are best. The Golden Pippin has 

 always in the West country been most esteemed as a 

 cider apple. The Orange Pippin, a middle-sized, round, 

 handsome, bright-coloured apple, is a great favourite in 

 Herefordshire as a cider, and also as an eating apple. 

 The flesh is yellow, and the pulp gives a fine golden 

 tint to the cider ; besides that, the fruit is excellent in 

 flavour. The Golden Harvey, or Brandy Apple, is said 



