APPLES. 115 



WINTER APPLES. 



Blenheim Pippin - - 72 Northern Greening - 149 



Canadian Reinette - - 76 Old Nonpareil - 175 



Contin Reinette - 77* Piles Russet - 179 



Coul Blush 130* Ribston Pippin - 155 



Fulwood - 89 Royal Russet - 185 



Golden Reinette ;W ' 93 Scarlet Nonpareil - - 187 



Kinellan Apple 144* Sweeny Nonpareil ff .--; - 189 



Lemon Pippin - - 145 Tarvey Codlin - - 158* 



Margil . - 100 Yorkshire Greening - - 114 



In the Highlands of Scotland winter apples can 

 hardly be expected to arrive at perfection, unless when 

 planted against walls. 



The variety of apples cultivated in this country is by 

 far too numerous to attempt any thing like a complete 

 description : even to enumerate them would be a most 

 difficult task, owing to the great uncertainty of their names 

 among nurserymen, gardeners, and orchardists, and the 

 multiplicity of names under which they are known in 

 different parts of the kingdom. 



In apples, a greater confusion exists in this respect 

 than in any other description of fruit. This arises not 

 so much from the great number of varieties which are 

 grown, as from the number of growers, some of whom 

 seek to profit by their crops alone, regarding but little 

 their nomenclature. Nurserymen, who are more anxious 

 to grow a large stock for sale than to be careful as to its 

 character, are led into error by taking it for granted that 

 the name of a fruit they propagate is its correct name, 

 and no other : hence arises the frequency of so many of 

 our fruits being sold under wrong names. Gardeners, 

 who purchase trees, become deceived by this procedure, 

 and do not discover the error, unless they have been 

 imposed upon by the substitution of something worthless, 

 wholly and obviously at variance with the character of 

 the fruit that was sold them. This is a serious evil, 



