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SECTION XX. GEADING AND PACKING FRUIT 



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Importance of Packing " Non-returnables " - 54 



SECTION XXL PIP FRUITS: APPLES, PEARS, QUINCES, 



MEDLARS 

 APPLES 



1. GENERAL Area under Cultivation - - 57 



2. APPLES AND MIXED CROPS Standard Apples and Rhubarb 



Overcrowding - - 60 



3. STORING APPLES - - 64 



4. THE BEST VARIETIES OF APPLES TO PLANT - - 66 



5. CULINARY APPLES Early Victoria or Emneth Early Lord 

 Grosvenor Lord Suffield Grenadier Ecklinville Seedling 

 Keswick Codlin Lady Henniker Stirling Castle Lord 

 Derby Lane's Prince Albert Bramley's Seedling Bis- 

 marck Warner's King Pott's Seedling Gascoygne's 

 Scarlet Golden Spire Newton Wonder Dumelow's 

 Seedling Annie Elizabeth - 68 



6. DESSERT APPLES Mr. Gladstone The Devonshire Quarrenden 

 Lady Sudeley Worcester Pearmain Cox's Orange Pippin 

 King of the Pippins James Grieve Irish Peach Duchess 

 Favourite Ribston Pippin Beauty of Bath Golden 

 Reinette Early Julyan Blenheim (Orange) Pippin All- 

 ington Pippin - - 71 



7. INSECT PESTS Winter Moth Other Moths with Wingless 

 Females The Maggots of the Winter and March Moths 

 The Brown-tail Moth Lackey Moth The Codlin Moth- 

 Pith Moths Apple-blossom Weevil Apple Sawfly Mussel 

 Scale The Woolly Aphis Apple Aphides Apple Sucker 

 Other Apple Pests - - 75 



8. FUNGOID DISEASES OF THE APPLE Apple Scab Brown Fruit 

 Rot Apple Rot Apple-tree Canker Heartwood Rot of 

 Apple Tree Bitter-pit of Apples Apple-tree Mildew - 84 

 PEARS 



1. GENERAL Pears on Walls Cultivation for Market Pear 



Stocks Pruning A Plea for Co-operation - 91 



2. PEARS TO GROW FOR MARKET The Duck Egg Jargonelle 

 Lammas Hessle Calebasse Bosc Beurre Capiaumont 

 Durondeau Fertility Emile d'Heyst Winter Windsor 

 Clapp's Favourite Dr. Jules Guyot Beurre Gifford Con- 

 ference Catillac Doyenne du Cornice Beurre Clairgeau 

 Beurre* Hardy Beurre Superfin Easter Beurre" General 

 Todleben Glou Morceau Louise Bonne of Jersey Beurre" 



