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Quarrenden, Irish Peach, Kerry Pippin, Oslin, Thorle, and 

 * Worcester Pearmain. These all succeed and bear freely on 

 any form of a tree, but for growing them to supply superior 

 fruit for exhibition, the " bush " form of tree on the Paradise 

 stock is the most convenient and generally the best. When 

 properly attended to, by careful summer pinching, replanting 

 and root-pruning when needful, top-dressing, and watering 

 with liquid manure, such trees produce the very finest samples 

 of fruit in abundance ; the crop requiring to be well thinned to 

 allow the best fruits to attain perfection. 



For a general collection of dessert apples to be exhibited 

 " ripe or unripe," the following are among the best and most 

 useful varieties in addition to the above six : — -Adam's Pear- 

 main, *Beauty of Bath, *Blenheim Pippin, Braddick's Non- 

 pareil, Claygate Pearmain, Cockle's Pippin, Coi'nish Aromatic, 

 Cornish Gilliflower, Court of Wick, Court Pendu Plat, *Cox's 

 Orange Pippin, *Duchess of Oldenburg, Dutch Mignonne, 

 Golden Pippin, *Gravenstein, *King Harr}', *King of the 

 Pippins, *Lady Sudeley, Mannington's Pearmain, Margil, 

 *Red Astrachan, Keinette du Canada, *Ribston Pippin, and 

 *Scarlet Nonpareil. 



Among the finest varieties of culinary apples for exhibition 

 in a collection of " ripe or unripe " fruits the following thirtj' 

 may be named : — Alfriston, Annie Elizabeth, * Beauty of Kent, 

 Bedfordshire Foundling, *Blenheim Pippin, Bramley's Seed- 

 ling, Cox's Pomona, *Ecklinville Pippen, *Emperor Alexander, 

 Frogmore Prolific, *Gloria Mundi, *Golden Noble, Grenadier, 

 Kentish Fillbasket, Loddington, Lord Derby, *Lord Suffield, 

 *Mere de Menage, *Mrs. Barron, *Peasgood's Nonsuch, *Pott's 

 Seedling, Prince Albert, Red Winter Reinette, Stirling Castle, 

 Striped Beaufin, Tower of Glammis, *Warner's King, Welling- 

 ton, Wilts Defiance, and Winter Hawthoinden. 



The finest twelve varieties of dessert and culinary apples 

 for exhibition are marked with an asferisk in the above lists. 

 Their large and handsome appearance, and the fine rich colour 

 of most of them, make them very attractive dishes on an 

 exhibition table. Many other handsome and useful apples are 

 extensively grown in various parts of tlie countrj', and some 



