BUDS, BLOOM, AND EARLY BIRD 



feet apart. The following varieties should be grown, 

 whatever others are liked, because they have general 

 qualities : 



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Dessert Apples 

 Gladstone 

 Beauty of Bath 

 Worcester Pearmain 

 James Grieve 

 Cox's Orange Pippin 

 Baumann's Winter Reinette 



Cooking Apples 

 Lord Grosvenor 

 Lord Derby 

 Peasgood's Nonsuch 

 Lane's Prince Albert 

 Newton Wonder 

 Bramley's Seedling 



Pears 



Jargonelle 

 Clapp's Favourite 

 Williams' Bon Chretien 

 Beurre Hardy 

 Emile d'Heyst 

 Louise Bonne of Jersey 

 Doyenne du Cornice 

 Beurre Diel 

 Winter Nelis 

 Josephine de Malines 



Cooking Pear 

 Catillac 



The above varieties are approximately in the order of 

 their ripening. 



I give prominence to Apples and Pears because they 

 are the most in demand, but a few Plums and Cherries 

 may be added with advantage where space permits. 

 These, however, do better as fan trees than single stem 

 cordons, and where fans are used there should be more 

 wires on the trellis ; in fact, beginning at two feet from the 

 ground, they should be placed a foot apart right to the 

 top. The varieties might be ; 



Dessert Plums 

 Early Transparent Gage 

 Denniston's Superb 

 Late Transparent Gage 

 Kirke's 

 Jefferson's 

 Coe's Golden Drop 



Cooking Plums 

 Rivers' Early Prolific 

 The Czar 

 Victoria 



Gisborne's Prolific 

 Monarch 

 President 



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