Pip Fruits: Apples 



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It is also liable to scab, and requires the help of the spray machine to 

 defend it against the Apple Sucker. In Herefordshire some wonderful 

 sums of money per acre have been reported as having been netted from 

 this apple. It should be gathered in August. (See Plate.) 



Keswick Codlin. This variety is found in many of the older market 

 gardens, and is valued for its earliness. It often fetches a higher price 

 if picked when only three parts ripe than if allowed to remain too 

 long and get soft and yellowish. It is of medium size, conical, with 

 sharp ridges round the eye. It will probably be superseded by the 

 Early Victoria mentioned above. It is an excellent cooker. 



Lady Henniker. A good cooking Apple but with the reputation of 

 taking a long time to come into bearing. Fruit large, roundish, and 

 bluntly angled, and comes into season in September and October. It is 

 yellowish when ripe, and lasts well. 



Stirling" Castle. This is an Apple that makes it its business to crop, 

 and scarcely thinks about anything else. It can be thinned as early as 

 the middle of August. If left to mature, the fruit attains a great size. 

 Some Stirling Castles grown in Middlesex in 1909 were sold at Covent 

 Garden at 6s. per dozen. On the Crab stock it cankers badly in cold 

 soils; on the Paradise it will produce heavy crops of fine apples in a very 

 few years. The name Stirling Castle is a passport to top prices all over 

 the Midlands. No plantation should be without this sort. 



Lord Derby. This is a valuable green cooking apple of comely 

 shape. It has the advantage to the fruiterer of being one of the heaviest 

 apples grown. It is a sturdy grower and a good cropper. It will follow 

 the varieties named above. 



Lane's Prince Albert (fig. 

 338). This is one of the best 

 Apples ever introduced; there 

 is scarcely a desirable quality it 

 does not possess. The growth of 

 the tree is vigorous without be- 

 ing too spreading, the branches 

 become profusely covered with 

 bloom buds, and it does not 

 blossom too freely to prevent 

 its cropping. The fruit comes 

 clean and even-sized, not too 

 large, yet with few small ones. 

 It will cook well in September 

 or keep till March. It possesses 

 all the cooking qualities of the 

 Wellington, and is four times a 



more reliable cropper. It does well on either Crab or Paradise stock; and 

 though it prefers warm soils, it will accommodate itself to a strong soil 

 if not too wet and cold. 



Fig. 338. Apple. Lane's Prince Albert. 



