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CHAPTER VI. 



OF APPLES. 



Different Sorts of Apples described. — Of Heading Apple-Trees, 

 — Of Espaliers and Dvoarjs. — Grafting old Apple- Trees ; 

 and of the Advantage of using the Composition in that 

 Operation, 



XiiNN^us has joined the Pear, the Apple, and 

 the Quince together, making them all of the same 

 genus, and has reduced all the varieties of each to 

 one species. They belong to his Twelfth Class, 

 Icosandria Pentagynia. The Apple is named 

 Pyinis Malus, 

 The species are, 



1. The Wild Apple, with a very sour fruit 

 commonly called Crab. 



2. Wild Crab of Virginia, with a sweet- 

 scented flower. 



3. The Dwarf Apple, which is rather a shrub 

 than a tree j commonly called Paradise Apple. 



Thefolloiuing are the Sorts of Apples which are most esteemed in 



England, 



1. Acklam's Russet. This is a small York- 

 shire Apple, of a russet colour toward the sun, 

 and yellow on the other side ; it is ripe in January, 

 and keeps till March. 



