VARIETIES OF APPLE. 83 



It has many of the qualities of a good market apple — a healthy, 

 early fruiting, prolific tree ; fruit of good size, pleasing appearance, 

 and very agreeable flavor. How well it will bear transportation 

 to distant markets, and the rough handling too common in these 

 days, we can not yet say. 



NOVA SCOTIA APPLES. 



"We are indebted to ^Mr. E. W. Starr for the following de- 

 scriptions of four varieties of Apples, which originated in If ova 

 Scotia, and are much esteemed in that Province : 



Sutton's Early was grown by !Mr. AVm. Sutton, of Com- 

 wallis, from seed of the Eibston Pippin. It has not yet been 

 thoroughly tested, but it promises weU. The fruit is large, conic, 

 slightly ribbed ; skin yellowish white, with faint russet markings 

 around the stem ; flesh white, juicy, with a pleasant sub-acid 

 flavour. Pipe from the 20th to the last of August. The tree is 

 thrifty, with a spreading habit, and the young shoots stout, dark 

 and downy. 



Bishop's Bourne. — Another seedling of Sutton's from the 

 Eibston Pippin. The tree is hardy, a quick grower, forms a 

 spreading head, the young wood bright and tough. It bears 

 abundant crops of fair fruit, which is much prized for stewing 

 and baking, as it contains a great deal of saccharine, although 

 classed as sub-acid. The fruit is of medium size, roundish conical, 

 pale yellow in the shade, and obscurely splashed and striped in 

 the sun ; flesh is white, crisp, tender, juicy, mQd sub-acid, slightly 

 aromatic ; season Xovember and December. 



Marquis of Lorne. — ^A seedling from the Gravenstein, by 

 Sutton. The tree is large, vigorous and spreading ; young wood 

 stout and dark; the leaves large, dense, dark green ; the blossoms 

 are large and deep rose-coloured ; the fruit large to very large, 

 oblate, sometimes conic; the skin smooth, yellowish white, thickly 

 sprinkled with carmine and splashed with broken stripes of a 

 darker shade of the same color ; dots small and brown ; stem 

 short and small, inserted in a wide, deep, regular, russeted cavity; 

 basin large, ridged and irregular ; calyx large, open, with the 



