APPLES AS BUSHES FOR MABKET GARDENS. 69 



the trench and treading it gently on to the roots. 

 The following sorts are well adapted for this bush 

 culture, but the upright varieties recommended for 

 pyramids form nice compact bushes. 1 



Brabant Bellefleur, kitchen April 



Cornish Aromatic, dessert May 



Early Harvest, dessert August 



Emperor Alexander, kitchen October 



Gravenstein, kitchen or dessert November 



__ ,. , ( August to 



Hawthornden, kitchen I 



I November 



Joanneting (white), dessert July 



Melon Apple, dessert February 



Mere de. Menage, kitchen December 



Nonesuch, kitchen October 



Pom me Koyale, kitchen or dessert April 



Reinette du Canada, kitchen or dessert May 



Eibston Pippin, dessert December 



South Carolina Pippin, kitchen December 



Spring liibston Pippin, dessert Miiy 



Victoria, dessert April 



Walthara Abbey Seedling, kitchen December 



There is no mode of apple culture more interesting 

 than bush culture. On the next page I annex a 

 sketch of a plantation of Cox's Orange Pippin (Fig. 

 12), of one hundred trees ; they were planted in the 

 spring of 1862. They bore a fine crop in 1863 of 

 most beautiful fruit, and in 1864: gave a crop almost 

 too abundant. 



APPLES AS BUSHES FOB MARKET GARDENS. 



Our market gardeners, as a rule, are very deficient 

 in their knowledge of fruit-tree culture, and they have 

 much to learn. The usual practice with them is to 

 plant standard or half standard trees in rows, some 

 twenty or thirty feet apart, and between them goos'e- 



1 These dwarf bushes are liable to be gnawed by rabbits and hares in exposed 

 gardens. The best of all preventives is to paint them with soot and milk, well 

 mixed; or make a fence with galvanized wire netting, round the garden in which 

 they are planted. 



