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set, one-eighth ; Golden Pippin, one-sixth*; Mount 

 House, one-tenth : Red Robin, none. (Gard. Mag. 

 in. 284.) 



Mr. R. Donald, of "Woking Nursery, was still more- 

 successful in preserving his apples in this manner. He 

 had a trench dug rive feet wide, one foot below the 

 surface of the ground, and 12 feet long; covered the 

 bottom and sides with turf, the grassy side upwards, 

 and then filled the space with Golden Knobs and 

 some French Crabs, about 2i feet deep in the centre, 

 sloping a little to the side ; he then covered them 

 close with turf, the grassy side next the fruit, to keep 

 them clean, and had the ridge covered with mould a 

 foot thick, to keep out the frost and exclude the ex- 

 ternal air. In the end of April following they were 

 taken out in fine preservation. (Gard. Mag. i. 209.) 



There are many modes of preserving apples in 

 sugar, and by drying, known to every housewife, but 

 the following very efficient and simple method is not 

 so generally practised as it deserves. 



Any good baking sort, which is liable to rot, if 

 peeled and cut into slices about the thickness of one- 

 sixth of an inch, and dried in the sun, or in a slow 

 oven, till sufficiently desiccated, may be kept in boxes 

 in a dry place for a considerable time ; and the slices 

 only require to be soaked in water for an hour or two 

 before using. {Jour, of Science, July 1S27, 272.) 



H . WOOLDHIDGE. PRINTER; HIGH-STREET. WINCHESTER- 



