ON FRUIT CULTURE. 



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i8in. apart 



it consists 



high ones they may be trained as upright cordons, 

 will be ample for such trees planted against walls. 



The pruning of cordons is a simple operation : 

 really of allowing the leading 

 shoot to go on unchecked 

 until it has filled its allotted 

 : space, pruning all side shoots 

 in to three or four eyes at 

 the end of July, and then 

 pruning back again to two 

 eyes in the autumn. The 

 stock should be the English 

 Paradise ; if the Crab or free 

 stock were used, gross wood 

 in profusion and little if any 

 fruit would be the result. 



Apples for Exhibition. — 

 Fruit-exhibitors have done 

 much towards the improve- 

 ment of Apple culture, and 

 have also fired many amateur . 

 and professional gardeners F«>. 6 4 o.-Apple Allington Pl PPr N . 



with a desire to become 



successful growers and competitors at fruit-shows. The bush 

 or cordon tree is the best to plant for this purpose, as it 



commences to fruit quickly, 

 the fruit can be thinned 

 when there is a heavy 

 crop, insect foes are more 

 easily combated, and, if 

 necessary, the roots can 

 be supplied with liquid, 

 chemical, or farmyard 

 manures to assist in 

 swelling the fruit to a large 

 size. 



The following twenty- 

 four varieties of culinary 

 and twelve sorts of dessert 

 Apples will be a good 

 selection for exhibition, 

 being of good form, hand- 

 some, and nearly always 

 found in prize collections. 

 Culinary : Beauty of Kent, 

 Belle Dubois, Belle de Pontoise, Bismarck, Bramley's Seedling, 

 Cox's Pomona, Ecklinville Seedling, Gascoyne's Scarlet, Golden 

 Noble, Hambling's Seedling, Lane's Prince Albert (Fig. 637), 



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Fig. 641. — Apple Blue Pearmain. 



