APPLE 



HABDY FBUIT GARDEN 



PEAR 1059 



July and August. — Joaneting, t * Mr. 

 Gladstone, t * Irish Peach, t Beauty of 

 Bath, t * Devonshii-e Quarrenden, 



* Duchess of Oldenburgh. 



August and September. — * Lady 

 Sudeley, t * Worcester Pearmain, Kerry 

 Pippin; t King of the Pippins. 



September, October, and November. — ■ 

 Yellow Ingestrie, Washington, Cornish 

 Aromatic, Gravenstein, American Mother, 

 t Margil, Court of Wick, t* Cox's Orange 

 Pippin, Kibston Pippin, f * Blenheim 

 Orange. 



November, December, and January. — 

 t Brownlees' Busset, Cornish Gillyflower, 

 King of Tompkins County, * AUington 

 Pippin, Adam's Pearmain, *Braddick's 

 Nonpareil, * Scarlet Nonpareil, t Melon 

 Apple, Harvey's Wiltshire Defiance. 



December to March. — Mannington's 

 Pearmain, Claygate Pearmain, Eeinette 

 de Canada, Fearn's Pippin, Duke of 

 Devonshire. 



March, to May. — Allen's Everlasting, 



* Court Pendu Plat, Sturmer Pippin, 



* Cockle Pippin, D'Arcy Spice. 



II. List of Cooking' Apples arranged 

 according to the period when fit for use. 

 See Note under Dessert Apples, p. 1058. 



August amid September. — Dutch 

 Codlin, t Keswick Oodlin, t * Frogmore 

 Prolific, tLord Suffield, t* Stirling Castle, 

 t Greenup's Pippin, t Jolly Beggar, * New 

 Hawthornden. 



October am.d November. — t * Potts' 

 Seedling, f Cellini, f * Ecklinville, Gloria 

 Mundi, t*Lord Grosvenor, Peasgood's 

 Nonesuch, Manks Codlin, t* Cox's 

 Pomona, Loddington Seedling, f * Grena- 

 dier, t* Golden Spire, The Queen, 



* Small's Admirable, Beauty of Kent, 

 Castle Major, t* Warner's King. 



December and January. — ■ f Betty 

 Geeson, Baumann's Beinette, f Blenheim 

 Orange, fLady Henniker, f* Lane's 

 Prince Albert, Sandringham, f Winter 

 Hawthornden, t*Lord Derby. 



February, March, and April. — 

 t * Alfriston, * Golden Noble, t M6re 

 de M&age, t * Bismarck, t * Bramley's 

 Seedling, t * Dumelow's Seedling, Nelson 

 Codlin, Yorkshire Greening, Beauty of 

 Kent, * Newton Wonder, Wadhurst Pippin, 



* Hormead Pearmain, t Tower of Glammis, 

 Bedfordshire PoundUng, Schoolmaster, 



* New Northern Greening, Dutch Mig- 

 noime. 



III. List of Apples suited for cultiva- 

 tion in the north of England and Soot- 



land. Those marked with an asterisk {*) 

 require to be grown on a wall for protec- 

 tion. 



Cooking Apples 



Cellini, Emperor Alexander, Dutch 

 Codlin, Gloria Mundi, Greenup's Pippin, 

 Hawthornden, Lemon Pippin, M4re de 

 Manage, Nelson CodUn, Keswick Codlin, 

 Lord Suffield, Manks Codlin, Northern 

 Greening, Alfriston, Bedfordshire Pound- 

 ling, Blenheim Orange, Dumelow's Seed- 

 ling, Yorkshire Greening, Tower of Glam- 

 mis, Warner's King. 



Dessert Apples 



Devonshire Quarrenden, Irish Peach, 

 Kerry Pippm, Summer Pearmain, Yellow 

 Ingestrie, * Adam's Pearmain, * Brad- 

 dick's Nonpareil, Court of Wick, * Margil, 



* Eibston Pippin, * Scarlet Nonpareil. 



* Sturmer Pippin. 



THE PEAR (Pyrus communis). — 

 The Pear is very closely related to the 

 Apple, but differs in several important 

 respects. In a wild state it still exists in 

 Britain and the temperate parts of Europe 

 and Asia, and has more or less spiny 

 branchlets. In cultivated specimens, 

 which often reach a height of 40-60 ft. 

 with the trunk a yard or more in dia- 

 meter, the spines are usually absent. 

 The leaves are simple, ovate, serrate or 

 orenate, smooth above, sometimes downy 

 beneath. The flowers are usually white,, 

 rarely tinted with pink, and are borne in 

 . corymbs having 8-10 blossoms. The 

 fruit varies a good deal in shape, but 

 usually tapers from the stalk towards the 

 eye, and is thickest about two thirds its 

 length from the stalk — the principal forms 

 being roundish, more or less top-shaped, 

 or obovoid. In flavour and lusciousness 

 it rivals the Peach and Nectarine, but 

 cannot equal the Apple for keeping 

 qualities. 



Training. — Pear trees may be grown 

 and trained in the same way as Apples, 

 namely as bushes, pyramids, standards 

 and half-standards, cordons, espahers &c. 

 (see p. 1035). Against walls, fan-trained 

 trees and cordons are very popular, while 

 in the open ground bushes, pyramids, 

 and espaliers find great favour. Bush 

 Pear trees are very suitable for small 

 gardens, as they are easily attended to in 

 the matter of pruning, gathering, cleans- 

 ing &c. They may be planted 6-8 ft. or 



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