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fmits are very large, and cook well. If it cankers in certain 

 soils, Tower of Glamis should take its place. Bismarck is a very 

 tine fruit, large and richly coloured, while it bears well, and cooks 

 splendidly. Rev. W. Wilks is a particularly fine Apple, and 

 is good as a cordon or bush tree. It bears very regularly, 

 and the fruits are large. Blenheim Orange is suitable for cooking 

 and dessert, and is a fine Apple when at its best. Standard trees 

 are long in commencing to bear fruit, but bushes on the Paradise 

 stock fruit much more quickly. 



Young Standard after a year's growth : 



c c t where pruned after planting ; d d t 



young shoots doubled in number 



