54 HINTS ON PROFITABLE FRUIT GROWING. 



be far better to grow for market mainly of the early 

 maturing sorts that can be sold off direct from the trees. 

 When grown of good quality, choice, early dessert, of 

 such old favourites as Eed Astrakan, Irish Peach, Kerry 

 Pippin, Duchess of Oldenburg, and Quarrenden give the 

 best results everywhere. 



If it is decided to form an orchard of standard apples, 

 a very careful survey should be made of those in the 

 district, and the selection should be made from all 

 really good bearing, hardy favourite sorts. Bush trees 

 should be grown between these " standards " of those 

 kinds yielding the largest of the early apples, or only 

 such as give pretty certain and prolific crops, like Lord 

 Suffield, Irish Peach, or Kerry Pippin. These sorts, if 

 of fine samples, will always bring the top prices of the 

 market. 



The best qualities for specimen or exhibition fruit are 

 Washington, Lane's Prince Albert, Calville Blanche, 

 the Queen, and Peasgood Nonsuch. These are all even 

 worthy of a wall, or an orchard house. In sheltered 

 situations they pay well grown as cordons, as they 

 would be found at least to equal, under liberal culture, 

 the best of those imported from abroad. When American 

 apples begin to come in, their showy appearance and 

 size often cause home-grown fruit to be neglected. It 

 will be well, therefore, to plant mainly of the earlier 

 sorts, and not to raise too many kinds. 



Where a good local reputation is found for any of 

 the above, those should be largely planted, and prefer- 

 ence might always be given for those kinds the leading 

 fruiterers have "a good run" upon, in their respective 

 seasons. Showy dessert fruit will often fetch three or 

 four times as much as merely cooking sorts, when there 

 is a fashionable trade to be catered for. 



