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motto slow and sure, not having learned that quick and 

 sure is better. Still less would you call Bramley's Seed- 

 ling a bad Apple. It is one of the best. It bears heavily 

 and regularly when its wood is ripe, it is a large heavy 

 fruit, it keeps splendidly, its flavour is excellent. It is, 

 however, one of the slow brigade. It resembles Blenheim, 

 yet does not carry deliberation to such a trying extreme. 



What are some of the best of the quick-bearing Apples ? 

 Let us have their names and their seasons before us. It 

 may be better to take them in approximate order of 

 ripening rather than in alphabetical order, and to begin 

 with culinary varieties. 



Keswick Codlin. One of the oldest of the early Codlins, 

 displaced from many gardens by larger sorts, but ex- 

 celled by few in early and continued productiveness, and 

 superior in bleak places where the soil is poor. It is a 

 late bloomer, and is not often injured by frost. 



Lord Suffield. The best of the early Codlins for light, 

 fertile soil and a mild situation ; a larger fruit than 

 Keswick Codlin, but not vigorous enough for cold soil 

 and climate. 



Lord Grosvenor. A very good early Codlin where the 

 soil is rather too heavy for Lord Suffield. Yields well as a 

 young tree, in fact, a very good representative of the 

 Bear-quick type. 



Early Victoria (Emneth Early). A splendid early 

 variety for light, loamy soil, makes a large tree quickly 

 and bears young. 



Red Victoria. A highly coloured form of the fore- 

 going. 



Baron Wolseley. A large Apple of beautiful form and 

 colour, but needs a good, loamy soil. 



King of Tompkins County. A variety of high colour 

 and very productive, but unsuitable for stiff soil. One of 



