9 8 4 



Gardening for Amateurs 



are recommended among the kitchen or cook- 

 ing Apples : Alfriston, November - March ; 

 Annie Elizabeth, heavy cropper, February- 

 April ; Beauty of Kent, November-February ; 

 Bismarck, handsome, highly coloured, free 

 bearing, December-February ; Bramley's 

 Seedling, one of the best of cooking Apples, 

 heavy cropper, January-March ; Duchess of 

 Oldenburg, a handsome and valuable early 

 cooking Apple, August-September ; Dume- 

 low's Seedling, or Wellington, an admirable 

 late variety, probably the finest of all cooking 

 Apples, bears well, December-March ; Early 

 Victoria, a most prolific bearer, the fruit is 

 not large, July -August ; Ecklinville Seedling, 

 an old and still valuable variety, September- 

 October ; Gascoyne's Scarlet, large, hand- 

 some, highly coloured, October-January ; 

 Lane's Prince Albert, attractive rounded 

 fruit, very freely produced, November- 

 February ; Lord Grosvenor, a large early 

 apple, bears heavy crop, September ; Newton 

 Wonder, an invaluable and attractive late 

 cooking variety, December-April, fruits 

 freely ; Norfolk Beauty, a large yellow 

 Apple, bears good crops, September -Decem- 

 ber ; Royal Jubilee, a large pale yellow Apple, 

 blossoms late (it is the " Wise Apple " among 

 cooking sorts), and rarely fails to give a crop ; 

 Stirling Castle, a popular early Apple, 

 August-September, invariably bears a heavy 

 crop. 



In the following lists the Apples named 

 above are shown in the approximate order 

 of their ripening : 



DESSERT VARIETIES 



COOKING 



American Blight or Woolly Aphides. 

 The woolly or cottony substance which may 

 be noticed in patches on some Apple trees 

 is the hiding place or covering material of a 

 most destructive species of aphides known 

 variously as Woolly Aphides or American 

 Blight (Schizoneura lanigera). The white 

 substance which covers the insects serves as 

 a protective shield for them, and under it 

 they pierce the tissues and suck sap from 

 the tree ; the growth below this point 

 gradually becomes cankered and swollen, 

 the branch becomes prematurely gnarled and 

 cracked, with the inevitable result that it 

 soon dies or quickly passes beyond an era of 

 productive satisfaction. This aphis attacks 

 the roots also, hence one sees how easily it 

 may be introduced into a garden, and how 

 difficult it is to eradicate it once there. The 

 insects hide in the crevices of the bark or 

 in the soil about the roots. Several genera- 

 tions are produced in one year, so that if 

 speedy steps are not taken to check them 

 the numbers increase at an alarming rate. 



The young insect is pink in colour, and 

 covered with down ; the mature insect is 

 brownish and when crushed emits a reddish 

 fluid. As cold weather comes on many 

 females lay one egg each, then die beside 

 them, their bodies serving as a protective 

 covering during the winter. Larvae are 

 born of these in spring, and soon become 

 flies, and winged females carry infection from 

 tree to tree during summer. 



