WHARFEDALE PASTURES. 



{Ex: Royal Academy, 1899.) 



By permission of A. ChigncU, Esq.. the o7uner of the pictin: 



THE APPLE TREE. 



GENERAL REMARKS. 



HE charm of the Apple Orchard is the homely charm ot 

 an everyday familiar scene, and vet a charm not without 

 complexity. There is first the beauty of well-poised 

 stems (notice as you pass how the undulation of the 

 ground robs them ot their graceful proportions when they are repro- 

 duced in a pantomime of shadows on the grasses underfoot). There 

 is the delicate pink-and-white beauty of the blossom in early summer, 

 and the richly coloured truit crop of autumn. But close by the 

 orchard stands the labourer's thatched cottage, with its oddly shaped 

 hen-coop and well-worn " grin'stone." So the beauties which nature 

 lends the scene are inseparable trom the suggestion of human care and 

 forethought, which is found in such details as the lime-washed tree 

 stems, or, still more strikingly when the highly cultivated type is 

 compared with the crab-apple in its wild state. 



