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Defiance, Lemon. Pippin, Newtown Pippin, Northern 

 Spy, Welford Park Nonsuch, Calville Blanche 

 d'Hiver, Washington, Sturmer Pippin, &;c. 



Apples for Trees of Different Shapes. — 



The idea of selecting varieties for moulding into 

 different forms and sizes is comparatively novel, and 

 is likely to he carried further and to greater perfec- 

 tion in the future. Still it may prove helpful to 

 our readers to select some of the best sorts for 

 moulding into cordons, pyramids, and bushes, for the 

 clothing of espaliers or walls, or conversion into 

 orchard trees. To make the matter more clear we 

 refer the reader back to our illustrations of each of 

 these forms of Apple-trees. 



Cordons. 



These are at once the smallest and the simplest 

 of all Apple-trees, and yet they admit of great 

 variety in practice. The primary idea is a single 

 rope or stem of leaves and fruit proceeding from 

 a single root. But it is obvious that a cord or 

 rope may proceed in single or double lines and in 

 different directions from the ground or root-stock. 

 Hence we have single, double, multiple, vertical, 

 horizontal, oblique, spiral, zigzag, diamonded, or other 

 cordons. The following varieties have been proved 

 suitable for cordons : — 



Dessert Varieties. — Coe's Golden Drop, Cox's 

 Orange Pippin, Pomme d'Api, King of the Pippins, 

 Duke of Devonshire, Scarlet and other Nonpareils, 

 Devonshire Quarrenden, Early Harvest, Lord Bur- 

 leigh, Northern Spy, Small's Admirable, Reinette 

 du Canada, Golden Reinette, Mr. Gladstone, Oslin, 

 Scarlet Astrachan, ^Hiite Paradise or Lady-finger ; 

 and, in warm situations, Calville Blanche d'Hiver 

 or Ribston Pippin, Ribston Pearmain, and Claygate 

 and other Pearmains. 



Kitchen Apples. — Cox's Pomona, New Hawthorn- 

 den, Lord Suffield, Jolly Beggar, Keswick Codlin, 

 Manks' Codlin, Bedfordshire Foundling, Blenheim 

 Pippin, Cellini, Mere de Menage, Forge, and Tower 

 of Glammis. 



But of course the stock has a great deal to do with 

 the adaptability of any particular variety of Apples 

 for cordons. Hardly any Apple makes a good 

 cordon on the Crab, while almost any variety will 

 readily yield to this unique and useful form on 

 such dwarfing and fertilising stocks as the English 

 or French Paradise. 



Pyramids, Cones, or Pillars. 

 The following varieties answer well for this form 

 of tree : — King of the Pippins, Court Rendu Plat, 

 Cox's Orange Pippin, Court of Wick, Devonshire 

 Quarrenden, Duke of Devonshire, Early Harvest, 



Oslin, Kerry Pippin, Margil, Red Astrachan, 

 Mannington's and other Pearmains, Scarlet and Old 

 Nonpareil, Sykehouse's Russet, Wyken Pippin, 

 Worcester Pearmain, Reinette du Canada, Golden 

 Reinette, Sturmer Pippin, Golden Harvey, and Ash- 

 mead Kernel. 



Kitchen Apples for Pyramids. — Cox's Pomona, 

 Bess Pool, Cellini, Keswick Codlin, Manks' Codlin, 

 Prince Albert, New Hawthornden, Lord Suffield, 

 Jolly Beggar, Duchess of Oldenburgh, Warner's 

 King, Dumelow's Seedling, Blenheim Pippin. 



Bushes, Yases, &c. 

 This is a most convenient form for small gardens, 

 and some of the varieties almost grow naturally into 

 this form. 



Dessert J^arieties for Apple-hushes. — Cornish Aro- 

 matic, Cockle Pippin, Golden Harvey, Gravenstein, 

 Cox's Golden Drop, Reinette du Canada, Court Rendu 

 Plat, Melon Apple, Peasgood's Nonsuch, D'Arcy 

 Spice, Worcester Pearmain, Early Harvest. 



Kitchen Varieties. —Brabant Bellefleur, Emperor 

 Alexander, Jolly Beggar, Manks' Codlin, Kes^vick 

 Codhn, Lord Suffield, Cox's Pomona, Hawthornden, 

 Waltham Abbey Seedling, Cellini, Blenheim Orange. 



Espaliers and Walls. 



For these purposes Apples on Crab-stocks are 

 often preferred, as it has been the common practice 

 to plant such trees at distances of from ten to fifteen 

 or even twenty feet apart. This system answers well 

 for such modes of horizontal training, but for what are 

 called multiple-cordons or U-shaped vertical espaliers, 

 distances of four feet apart will suffice, and these 

 smaU trees should be worked on the Paradise. 



i)^sse,.f._Ashmead's Kernel, Adams' Pearmain, 

 Boston Russet, Cobham, Court Rendu Plat, Golden 

 Russet, Lamb Abbey Pearmain, Newtown Pippin, 

 Northern Spy, Ribston Pippin, Ribston Pearmain, 

 Washington, 



Kitchen.— 'EsLmn.^njx's Red Reinette, Bedfordshire 

 Foundling, Blenheim Pippin, Brabant Bellefleur, 

 Ecklinville Pippin, Frogmore Prolific, Forge, 

 Golden Noble, Lewis's Incomparable, Prince Albert, 

 Stirling Castle, Royal Russet. 



Apples for Orchards. — These should be 

 vigorous growers, and are mostly tall or dwarf 

 standards worked on the Crab. This enables the 

 same sorts to grow with a Aagour and to a size quite 

 unknown to the similar varieties worked on dwarfing 

 or fertile stocks. 



The following varieties are among the most suit- 

 able for orchard culture : — Alfriston, Beauty of 

 Kent, Blenheim Pippin, Cellini, Cox's Pomona, 

 Dumelow's Seedling, Emperor Alexander, French 



