GEOEGE BUNYAED & CO.'S FETJIT CATALOGUE. 



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SHOW APPLES, PEAKS, AND PLUMS. 



(a) for Dessert, (b) for Cooking. 



With a view to removing difficulties and resolving doubts as to the distinction to be drawn between. 

 Dessert and Kitchen Apples, Pears, and Plums, the Council of the Royal Horticultural Society have caused 

 the following lists to be prepared for the guidance of their Judges at the Society's Exhibitions and Shows. 



The Council fully recognise that the line of separation between Dessert and Kitchen Fruits must be 

 entirely arbitrary, and to a great extent a matter of taste — which differs widely. They do not, therefore, 

 wish it to be supposed that the varieties named in the one list are unfit for use in the other. Everyone is 

 at liberty to use a variety for any purpose he likes, but in their opinion a fixed line of division between the 

 two classes, for Exhibition purposes, is absolutely necessary to secure uniformity, and avoid con- 

 fusion and disappointment at their shows. 



The Council are also fully aware that some varieties of beautiful appearance, which do not in their 

 opinion come up to Dessert Standard as regards flavour, are often placed on the dessert table. 

 Every one is at liberty to ornament their tables with brightly Coloured fruits as well as with beautiful 

 flowers ; but beauty in fruits, although a great additional advantage when it accompanies flavour and 

 quality, does not, when standing alone, entitle a variety to rank in the technical exhibition sense as a 

 Dessert Fruit. 



It would be impossible to draw up lists with which everyone would agree, as to the position assigned 

 to each individual variety, and it is only by mutual concessions that a general working agreement can be 

 reached, but that it is a good thing to endeavour to bring about such agreement the Council have no doubt 

 whatever. 



The following list will be found to include the great majority of varieties at present shown for 

 exhibition. In the case of those not named herein, the Judges must decide for themselves in which class 

 they will put them, always bearing in mind the principles expressed in the preceding paragraphs. Judges 

 are requested in the case of any variety of sterling merit coming to their notice, omitted here, to notify 

 their action to the Secretary of the Royal Horticultural Society, with a view to future revision of the lists. 



The object of the following lists should be borne in mind. It is only to decide between Dessert and 

 Cooking varieties. It is in no sense to recommend any, much less all those mentioned, as being desirable 

 varieties to plant. Such advice should be sought elsewhere. 



The nomenclature follows the 5th Edition, 1884, of the late Dr. Hogg's Fruit Manual. 



Adam's Pearmain. 

 Akera, or Okera 

 Allen's Everlasting. 

 Allington Pippin. 

 American Mother. 

 Ashmead's Kernel. 

 Baumann's Winter Reinette. 

 Beauty of Bath. 

 Benoni. 



Blenheim Orange. 

 Blue Pearmain. 

 Boston Russet. 

 Braddick's Nonpareil. 

 Brownlees' Russet. 

 Calville' Rouge Precoee. 

 Cardinal, or Peter the Great. 

 Claygate Pearmain. 

 Cobham. 

 Cockle's Pippin. 

 Cornish Aromatic. 

 Cornish Gilliflower. 

 Court Pendu Plat. 

 Court of Wick. 

 Cox's Orange. 

 D'Arcy Spice. 

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APPLES, DESSERT. 



Devonshire Quarrenden. 

 Duchess' Favourite. 

 Duke of Devonshire. 

 Dutch Mignonne. 

 Early Peach. 

 Egytanont Russet. 

 Feast's Pippin. 

 Gascoyne's Scarlet. 

 Golden Reinette. 

 Gravenstein. 

 Herefordshire Pearmain. 

 Hubbard's Pearmain. 

 Irish Peach. 

 Juneating. 

 Keddleston Pippin. 

 Kentish Pippin or Colonel 



Vaughan's. 

 Kerry Pippin. 

 King Harry. 



King of Tompkins County. 

 King of the Pippins. 

 Lady Sudeley. 

 Lord Burghley. 

 Mabbott's Pearmain. 

 Mannington's Pearmain. 



Margaret or Red Juneating. 



Margil. 



May Queen. 



Melon Apple. 



Mr. Gladstone. 



Northern Spy. 



Old Nonpareil. 



Oslin. 



Red Astrachan. 



Reinette de Canada. 



Ribston Pippin. 



Rosemary Russet. 



Ross Nonpareil. 



Roundway Magnum Bonum. 



Scarlet Nonpareil. 



September Beauty. 



Stunner Pippin. 



St. Edmund's Pippin. 



Washington. 



Wealthy. 



White Transparent. 



Williams' Favourite. 



Worcester Pearman. 



Wyken Pippin. 



Yellow Ingestrie. 



