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APPLES AS BUSHES FOR MARKET 

 GARDENS 



In a well-ordered fruit garden every kind of fruit 

 should have its department, every kind should have its 

 allotment — apples on the Paradise stock, ditto on the 

 crab stock, pears on the quince stock, the same on 

 the pear stock. Morello cherries as pyramids on the 

 Mahaleb stock — the best of all methods for their culture 

 — and the various kinds of the Duke cherries on the 

 same kind of stock. Heart and Bigarreau cherries on 

 the common cherry stock, plums as bushes, pyramids, 

 or half standards, should all be separated. 



I have been led into these remarks on market garden 

 fruit-tree culture by my own experience, and especially 

 into a consideration of the great improvement that may 

 be made in the culture of apples on the English Paradise 

 stock. On referring to page 82, the reader will find 

 that I allude to my plantation of Cox's Orange Pippin 

 apple trees on the Paradise stock (see fig. 15) ; these 

 trees in the season of 1864 — the third of their growth, 

 and the fourth of their age — gave an average of a quarter 

 of a peck from each tree. Some of the kinds likely to 

 sell best in the markets, and which are most productive, 

 are the following : — Lady Sudeley, Cox's Orange Pippin, 

 King of the Pippins, Ribstone Pippin, Worcester Pear- 

 main, Sturmer Pippin, Scarlet Nonpareil, Blenheim 

 Orange, Yellow Ingestrie, and Dutch Mignonne ; these 



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