28 Hints on V^egetahle and Fruit Farming. 



bushes are coming into general fashion and high favour, inas- 

 much as they come into bearing in about three years from the 

 grafting, and remain bushes without hacking and excessive 

 cutting. For these the true English Paradise stock, of dwarfing 

 nature, is used and grafted close to the ground. Bushes of this 

 kind can be put anywhere in gardens, from 7 to 10 feet apart, 

 and are things of beauty in leaf, in bloom and in fruit. A plot 

 planted with bushes of various kinds of apples is as pretty as a 

 variegated flower-bed, when the blossoms are out, and even 

 prettier when the fruit is ripening. A sketch of a Margil * 

 apple-bush, in my own garden, is given here as an illustra- 



Fig. 2. — Sketch of a Margil Apple-hush. 



tion of the shape of a typical bush. This is only four years 

 from the graft, and has thirty-one apples upon it of fine size 

 and lovely colour, and bore half this number last year (Fig. 2). 

 That these apple-bushes are profitable goes without saying, and 

 it is believed that they would be immensely profitable if culti- 

 vated upon a large scale, either by themselves or with goose- 

 berries and currants. They are suitable for tenants, as paying 

 at once, bearing removal ; in fact, being benefited by being lifted 



* The Margil is a beautifully-coloured apple of Kibston Pippiu flavour. Dr. 

 Hogg says, " It is one of the finest dessert apples, a rival of the Kibston Pippin, 

 exceeding it in juiciness, and being a better size for dessert." 



