FRUIT-TREES FOR ESPALIERS AND DWARFS. 



901. Select list for espaliers, 

 spurred in; none are marked * a 

 of equal merit : 



Dessert Apples. 

 Oslin. 



King of the Pippins. 

 Wormsley Pippin. 

 Golden Reinette. 

 Hughes' Golden Pippin. 

 Court of Wick. 

 Ribston Pippin. 

 Adams's Pearmain. 

 Pearson's Plate. 

 Golden Harvey. 

 Court Pendu Plat. 

 Reinette du Canada. 

 Braddick's Nonpareil. 

 Old Nonpareil. 

 Scarlet Nonpareil. 

 Boston Russet. 

 Downton Nonpareil. 



Kitchen Apples. 

 Dumelow's Seedling. 

 Royal Russet, 

 Alfriston. 



Brabant Bellefleur. 

 Kentish Codlin. 



Pears. 

 Jargonelle. 

 Citron des Carnies. 

 Dunmore. 

 Hessel. 



Beurre de Capiaumont. 

 Flemish Beauty. 

 Duchesse d'Angouleme. 

 Marie Louise. 

 Beurre Bosc. 



dwarfs, or standards trained, conically or 

 3 being preferable, as the whole are nearly 



Louise Bonne (of Jersey). 

 Napoleon. 

 Glout Morceau. 

 Nelis d'Hiver. 

 Hacon's Incomparable. 

 Chaumontel. 

 Pa'sse Colmar 

 Knight's Monarch. 

 Ne plus Meuris. 

 Beurre Diel. 

 Easter Beurre. 

 Beurre Ranee. 



Cherries. 

 *May Duke. 

 Morello. 



* Kentish. 

 Royal Duke. 

 Elton. 



Knight's early Black. 

 Bigarreau. 

 Late Duke. 

 Florence. 



Plums. 

 Royale Hative. 



* Green Gage. 

 Orleans. 

 *Fotheringham. 



* White Magnum Bonum. 

 *Blue Perdrigon. 

 Purple Gage. 

 Washington. 

 Ickworth Imperatrice. 

 Coe's Golden Drop. 

 Kirke's. 



Other fruit- trees, the mulberry, quince, medlar, service, and filbert, are 

 sometimes introduced as espalier trees or dwarf standards, especially where 

 there is no orchard, and perhaps some varieties of walnut and sweet chestnut 

 might be so introduced. 



902. The plants may be procured either one year grafted or some years 

 trained. All those to be planted on espaliers should be trained in the 

 horizontal manner ; and in planting, the greatest care must be taken to place 

 the plants on hills, so that when the ground has finally settled, their collars 

 may be an inch or two above the surface. The distance at which ^they 

 are placed from the espalier-rail may be from six inches to nine inches, and 

 the distance from plant to plant may be as follows : 



