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for supplying a retail market, you would probably be able 

 to realize the highest price, and to meet this you would 

 have to plant a considerable number of varieties, and such 

 as would probably extend in use over a lengthened season. 

 If, on the other hand, you should grow for a wholesale or 

 distant market only, it would be better to cultivate but 

 few varieties, so that you would have large quantities of 

 the same kind to deal with at one time. Or, should you 

 be growing for a jam factory or other preserving estab- 

 lishment, you would naturally select varieties that would 

 be best suited to that particular purpose. It will be im- 

 possible in the compass of this work to give suitable in- 

 structions to meet all cases which may arise, but the 

 following list of varieties will be found a good general 

 one from which selections may be made to answer most 

 of the above requirements. 



Standard Apples. 



K signifies kitchen ; T, table or dessert. The usual 

 season in which they are in use is indicated by the 

 month. 



BLENHEIM ORANGE. K.T. Nov. to Feb. The king of 

 apples when grown as a standard, the large fruits being 

 suitable for kitchen, and the small ones for dessert. The 

 greatest drawback to this variety is the length of time 

 that elapses before it comes into bearing, eight or ten 

 years being the usual period : a long time for this age of 

 speed. But it is a variety that we cannot do without 

 and can afford to wait for, there being plenty of others 

 which step in to supply the gap during the period of pro- 

 bation. Tree, a vigorous grower, with a spreading habifc. 



Cox's OKANGE PIPPIN. T. Oct. to Feb. The king of 

 dessert apples, medium in size, rich in colour, juicy in 



