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Lord Sujfield. A valuable and popular English variety, considered by 

 many to be an improvement upon the Keswick Codlin. Fruit above 

 medium-size, conical. Skin greenish-yellow, with a slight red tinge upon 

 the cheek. Flesh white, firm, juicy, and briskly flavoured. Kipens after 

 mid-season, will keep for several months, is one of our best cooking 

 Apples, and a good kind for cider. Tree hardy, strong, and a great 

 bearer. 



Lord Wolselcy. An excellent New Zealand variety that has obtained a 

 high reputation, and is said to be a cross between the Irish Peach and 

 Stone Pippin. Fruit medium-sized roundish-conical. Skin light-green. 

 Flesh firm, juicy, and briskly flavoured. Ripens late, keeps for a long 

 time, and is a good dessert and culinary Apple. Tree robust, a heavy 

 cropper, and said to be quite blight -proof. 



Lucomle's Seedling. An English variety, with large roundish-angular 

 fruit. Skin yellowish-green, with darker spots and streaked with crimson 

 on one side. Flesh white, juicy, and pleasantly flavoured. Ripens late, 

 will keep a long time, and is an excellent cooking Apple. 



Maclean's Favorite. A first-class English variety, with medium-sized 

 roundish fruit. Skin yellow. Flesh crisp, juicy, with a flavour resembling 

 the Newtown Pippin. Ripens medium late, will keep two or three 

 months, and is a good dessert Apple. Tree not very robust, but an 

 excellent bearer. 



McAfees Nonesuch. An American variety, with large globular fruit, 

 inclining to oblate. Skin yellowish-green, shaded and heavily striped 

 with crimson. Flesh whitish, solid, crisp, and sub-acid. Ripens late, 

 keeps a long time, and is an excellent dessert Apple. Tree strong and 

 very productive. 



Mantis Codlin (Frith Pitcher, Irith Pitcher, Irish Codlin J. An old 

 English culinary Apple, with medium-sized conical fruit. Skin pale- 

 yellow, with a blush-red cheek. Flesh yellowish-white, crisp, sub-acid, 

 with a slight aroma. Ripens in the autumn, will keep two or three 

 months, and is an excellent cooking Apple. Tree hardy, productive, and 

 comes into bearing early. 



Maidens Blush. A handsome arid useful American variety, with 

 medium-sized, or over, roundish-conical fruit. Skin pale-yellow, with a 

 deep-crimson cteek widely spread. Flesh white, tender, and pleasantly 

 sub-acid. Ripens about mid-season, will keep for several weeks, suitable 

 for both dessert and cooking, and an excellent apple for drying. Tree 

 rolust and yery prolific. 



Manningtom Pearmain. A high-class English variety, with medium- 

 sized roundish-conical fruit. Skin yellow, heavily shaded and splashed 

 with red, with tracings of russet and dotted with grey. Flesh yellow, 

 firm, crisp, juicy, sweet, with an aromatic flavour. Ripens late, will 

 keep for several months, and is an excellent dessert Apple. Tree hardy, 

 productive and an early bearer. 



M argil (Nnerfail, Murches Pippin). An old English variety, with 

 small ovate-conical slightly-angular fruit. Skin orange, streaked and 

 mottled with red with tracings of russet. Flesh yellow, firm, juicy, with 

 a rich aromatic flavour. Ripens late, will keep for a long period, and is 



