70 Commercial Gardening 



It is especially valuable for grafting on already established trees, where 

 it quickly makes a head and comes into bearing. (See Plate.) 



Bramley's Seedling 1 . Introduced about 1883 this Apple is becoming 

 very extensively planted. It has many of the qualities that go to make 

 a first-class culinary apple, though its flavour cannot be said to be above 

 the ordinary. A very free grower, it takes a good time to come into 

 bearing, on orchard standards or half-standards fully ten years, while 

 on the Paradise stock it will not bear if closely pruned. This may 

 account for the hesitancy there was about it until quite recently. The 

 close pruners condemned it as a "no cropper", and it was not until 

 someone had "let it go" long enough to enable it to reveal its true 

 character that there was any confidence in it. Nevertheless it is an 

 Apple that is safer to plant on poor clays and light soils than in fertile 

 spots where its free growing disposition will lead it to dissipation. The 

 fruit is in season up to January. 



Bismarck. A very fine apple in some places but poor in others. The 

 fruit is large and even, yellow, flushed and striped with red. Cooking 

 qualities good. Season, December to April. 



Warner's King*. No list of culinary Apples will perhaps be con- 

 sidered complete without this Apple, though of all the sorts mentioned 

 here it is the least to be recommended. 



Mr. Bunyard says it is the largest apple grown, and has scaled 32 oz. 

 in Kent. It makes a very spreading tree on the Crab, and wants more 

 room than the crop it bears deserves. It will canker in cold soils. On 

 the Paradise it does better and crops more freely. It can be gathered 

 at the end of September, or will keep all the winter; and it has been 

 known to keep until apples had come in again. 



Pott's Seedling 1 . This Apple is a horticultural analogy to a man 

 with a big intellect set on a sickly body. As a fruit it is admirable 

 solid, shapely, of good size and quality. 



The tree when first planted gives every promise of a fruitful existence. 

 The joints are short, the branches thick and sturdy, the fruit buds full 

 and prominent, and the foliage luxuriant, but after a year or two it 

 loses vigour, becomes a prey to every pest there is about, and cankers 

 away. It is only mentioned here in order to suggest it as a good variety 

 to plant if it is decided to plant cordons between the bush or half- 

 standard trees until these grow big enough to take all the ground. It 

 will crop vigorously in this form for a few years, when it can be done 

 away with. In season September and October. 



Gascoygne's Scarlet. Although, as a rule, red cooking apples are not 

 favourites with the buyers, this is the exception to the rule. 



It is one of the handsomest apples grown, coming to a dark-red colour. 

 The tree is spreading and requires room. It is of good constitution, and 

 a free and first-class bearer, the fruit being set evenly over the branches. 

 No one need be afraid of planting it. In season December and January. 



Golden Spire. Although this cannot yet be said to be a market 



