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called by the Horticultural Society of London, the 

 Northern Greening, is the best baking and longest 

 keeping apple we have. This might well be selected 

 as the parent, on one side, of a superior kitchen 

 apple : it is, moreoTcr, of very sound constitution. 



We would strongly advise that little crossing should 

 take place between kitchen and table apples ; the 

 produce of such can only in the main tend to confuse : 

 the country is full of such apples, which, in general, 

 possess no decided character. 



The pips of apples that will not keep until the 

 spring are best sown in the autumn, but if the apples 

 will continue undecayed, the pips should be kept in 

 them until March, and then be sown. The largest 

 and most convex pips usually produce the most valu- 

 able varieties. Sow them in pots or border of light 

 rich lo?m ; bury the seed an inch deep, if in a border, 

 six inches apart each way. Mr. Loudon says that at 

 the end of the year the seedlings should be trans- 

 planted into nursery rows, from six inches to a foot 

 apart every way. Afterwards they should be removed 

 to where they are to produce fruit ; and for this pur- 

 pose the greater the distance between the plants the 

 better. Tt should not be less than six or eight feet 

 every way. The quickest way to bring them into a 

 bearing state, Williams of Pitmaston considers, is to 

 let the plants be furnished with lateral shoots, from 

 the ground upwards, so disposed as that the leaves 



