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their use as stock plants. Do not plant deeply, lest the variety 
worked upon the Spy should throw its own roots, and become 
blighty and ultimately useless. The kinds recommended are named 
as much as possible in the order they ripen. 
IrisH Pzacu, S—Ripens in January, good bearer, but not a 
keeper; does not blight. Fruit medium size, somewhat flattened 
and slightly angular. Pale yellowish-green, tinged with dull reddish- 
brown, and lively red thickly dotted with green dots on shaded side 
and yellow spots on sun side. Flesh greenish white, tender, crisp. 
Margorige Hay, E—A New Zealand seedling from “Irish 
Peach.’’ Very early dessert apple of fine quality, blight proof. 
Fruit large size, conical; skin clear yellow, striped and mottled 
with lively red, brighter on the sunny aides flesh white, tender and 
crisp, juicy, aromatic flavour. 
Evuison’s Orange.—A new West Australian variety of great 
promise but still on trial. Introduced by Mr. A. T. Booth, Mt. 
Barker, and reported by our Agricultural Department as being an 
improvement on Cox’s Orange Pippin which is much prized as a 
dessert apple and on the London market. It ripens earlier, a free 
bearer and a stronger tree. 
JonaTHan (New York), A.—4Ripens in the autumn, from first 
week in March, and keeps well. Tree hardy, moderately vigorous, 
forming an upright, spreading, round head; early and abindant 
bearer, young shoots rather slender, slightly pendulous, greyish 
brown. Fruit medium to large, roundish, conical or tapering to the 
eye, even and regular in its outline, eye closed, skin thin and smooth, 
clear light yellow ground, mostly covered with red, deepening in 
the sun; flesh white, very tender and juicy, rich, vinous. Succeeds 
wherever grown, and proves one of the best in quality and most 
profitable, either for table or market. Dries well. Method of prun- 
ing has already been referred to. 
Ben Davis (a variety called “King David”: is full of promise 
and is said to be earlier fit for shipment to Europe), A.—Tree verv 
hardy and free grower, bearing early and abundantly, and blooming 
late in spring. The apples grow close to the limbs, which are on 
that account not likely to break down. 
Brack Ben Davis.—A great improvement on the Red Ben 
Davis, of which it is a seedling introduced from the U.S.A. 
CueopaTRA, W. (syn. Pomeroy, New York Pippim).—One of 
the best for dry districts. Keeps and carries well. Dessert or cook- 
ing. Tree grows large, upright, and bears well. Fruit ripening in 
April, rather large, of an oblong figure, rather irregular in its out- 
line, and with five angles on its side, forming a kind of lip at the 
crown; eye closed. Skin greenish yellow, few green specks inter- 
