148 LITTLE GARDENS 
Other good ones are Bedford Champion, Fillbasket, Sir Joseph 
Paxton, Waterloo. It is quite an easy matter to increase one’s 
stock by means of layering, a process that is explained by the 
accompanying sketches. Some cultivators take only one crop 
of fruit from their Strawberry plants; others take two or even 
three. In a little garden they ought certainly to give two crops 
before being pulled up. A succession of young plants is kept up 
by layering. 
A SELECTION OF FRUITS FOR SMALL GARDENS 
Apples 
Dessert.—Mr. Gladstone, August ; Irish Peach, August ; King of 
the Pippins, October to Christmas ; Allington Pippin, November to 
February ; Cox’s Orange Pippin, October to January; Margil, 
November to March ; Claygate Pearmain, December to March. 
Cooking.—Beauty of Bath, August; Bismarck, November to 
February ; Ecklinville, October to January ; Lane’s Prince Albert, 
October to January; Bramley’s Seedling, December to March ; 
Newton Wonder, November to April. 
Pears 
Dessert.—Williams’ Bon Chrétien, August and September ; 
Beurré Giffard, August ; Doyenné du Comice, November ; Louise 
Bonne of Jersey, November; Marie Louise, October and November ; 
Josephine de Malines, January to March; Le Lectier, January 
to March. 
Cooking.—Vicar of Wakefield, December to January. 
Plums 
Dessert.—Early Transparent Gage, August ; Kirke’s Blue, August 
and September ; Denniston’s Nuperb Gage, end of August ; Green 
