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To find affinities involves making a large number of experiments, 

 but testing for self-fertility is much easier. If this last were 

 done for every well-known and desirable variety a great advance 

 would be made. Let it be once for all established whether 

 any particular kind be self-fertile or self-sterile and no furthei 

 tests in that direction will be required. Attention can after- 

 wards be concentrated on finding affinities. One swallow does 

 not make a summer, nor do one dozen experiments prow, any- 

 thing, but the cumulative value of results obtained by inde- 

 pendent experimenters working carefully would be very great. 

 Some experimenters appear to have found affinities for certain 

 varieties which being self-fertile do not require them ; perhaps 

 the self-fertility was not well marked. 



Apples. 



Self-fertile 



1 Baumann's Red Reinette 



2 Ecklinville Seedling 



3 Golden Spire 



4 King of Pippins 



5 Kerry Pippin 



6 Lord Grosvenor 



7 Lord Derby 



8 Newton Wonder 



9 Potts' Seedling 



10 Stirling Castle 



11 Washington 



28 Crab. 



29 Devonshire Quarrenden 



30 Duchess's Favourite 



31 Early Victoria 



32 High Oanons 



Self-sterile 



12 Allington Pippin (16), (36), 



(37) 



13 Annie Elizabeth 



14 Bismarck 



15 Bramley's Seedling (18), (8) 



16 Beauty of Bath (12), (18), (21) 



17 Byford Wonder 



18 Cox's Orange Pippin (7), (10), 



(12), (15), (16), (29), (30), 

 (32), (34), (35) 



19 Grenadier (7), (28), (31), (33) 



20 James Grieve (10), (18) 



21 Lane's Prince Albert (7), (10) 



(16), (19), (25) 



22 Lord Hindlip 



23 Mere de Menage (34) 



24 Northern Greening 



25 The Queen (1) 



26 Worcester Pearmain (18) 



27 Wellington 



Used for Cross-pollination 



33 Hoary Morning 



34 Lady Sudeley 



35 Langley Pippin 



36 Ribston Pippin 



37 Summer Golden Pippin 



