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distinguished appearance, but useful on account of its 

 exceptional keeping properties. The flavour is good. 



Blue Pear main. A solid conical Apple of remarkable 

 colour, the burnished fruit having a decided bluish tint. 

 It is one of the latest of all, keeping until May. 



To this already long list of good dessert Apples it 

 would be quite easy to add more, such as Langley Pippin, 

 Feltham Beauty (two promising new varieties), Chelms- 

 ford Wonder, the old Dutch Mignonne, Christmas Pear- 

 main, Winter Ribston, Claygate Pearmain, Wyken 

 Pippin, Wealthy (a brilliant but soft fruit), St. Everard 

 (a cross between Cox's Orange Pippin and Margil), 

 Cornish Gilliflower, Winter Quarrenden, Devonshire 

 Quarrenden, Fearn's Pippin, Red Astrachan, Newtown 

 Pippin and Yellow Ingestre all varieties with one good 

 quality or another to recommend them. Indeed, the 

 number of good Apples runs to hundreds. 



There is one class of grower who does not object to see 

 a long list of varieties, and that is the connoisseur who 

 favours the cordon a tree of one or two branches, re- 

 quiring little room, and permitting of a considerable 

 number of varieties being grown on a small area of 

 ground. To such a person a long-continued supply is of 

 greater importance than a large bulk of fruit at one 

 particular period. To savour a good Apple day by day 

 from August to July, to ring the changes on the very 

 best sorts, is his laudable desire. 



The market-grower is situated differently. Small 

 quantities of fruit, however fine in appearance and 

 delicious in flavour, are of no use to him, for he cannot 

 establish an enduring trade. He must aim at large 

 bulks. 



We have seen that the Bear-quick Apple does not 

 take its character entirely from the variety. The stock 



