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and air may get into every part and ripen the wood, 

 thus forming a good basis for future abundant crops. 

 When growing and in good health the manuring should 

 be applied (to the surface) only when they are bearing 

 their fruit after it is well set, thus enabling trees to 

 bring the year's fruit to prefection by supplying the 

 necessary additional strength, and at the same time 

 helping the formation of fresh blossom-buds for the 

 next year. 



The list of Apples, Pears, Cherries, and Plums which 

 are here appended, is chiefly selected from that prepared 

 by forty leading experts, at the request of R.H.S. of 

 England, for most of which I can speak from personal 

 knowledge : 



Cooking Apples. Blenheim Orange, Bramley's Seedling, 

 Tower of Glamis, Ecklinville Seedling, Lane's Prince 

 Albert, New Hawthornden, Pott's Seedling, Warner's King. 



Eating Apples. Cox's Orange Pippin, Irish Peach, 

 Lady Sudeley, King of the Pippins, Duchess of Olden- 

 burg, Sturmer Pippin, Worcester Pearmain. 



Cooking Pears. Catillac, Verulam. 



Eating Pears. Louis Bonne of Jersey, Williams' Bon 

 Chretien, Marie Louise. 



Eating Cherries. May Duke, Kent Biggarreau, Early 

 Rivers (Black), and Elton White Heart. 



Cooking Cherries. Kentish, Morello. 



Cooking Plums. Cox's Emperor, Gisborne's, River's 

 Monarch, Victoria, Czar. 



