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APPLE. 



ifc is supposed to have originated many years ago. 

 Those writers are mistaken who assert that this 

 apple \Ti\\ keep till April ; this has never been con- 

 firmed in the author's experience. 



16. Kirke^s Scarlet Admirable. — Is in perfection 

 from October to the end of December ; is a fine large 

 showy fruit, of a red colour, rather longer than 

 round ; the flesh is breaking, full of richish juice, 

 and very suitable for kitchen purposes. In the 

 orchard it grows to be a fine healthy tree of the first 

 class. When required for garden culture, it should 

 be worked on paradise stocks, which will check its 

 natural luxuriance. Though not a first-rate bearer, 

 it will always be a desirable sort for the fruiterer, 

 seeing that its beauty will always make it readily 

 saleable in market. The apple is named from the 

 first possessor of it about London, a nurseryman to 

 whom the country is much indebted for the pains 

 and industry bestowed by him in the cultivation of 

 the best sorts of hardy fruit trees ; and who has 

 shown as many perfect specimens of his own pro- 

 ductions at the Horticultural Society's meetings as 

 any other member of the Society. 



17» Famcuse Poimne de Neige. — This apple is ripe 

 in October and November ; and is called the snow- 

 apple from the whiteness of the flesh. It is of 

 American origin, introduced by a gentleman at 

 Brompton, within these thirty years, Mr. Kirke 

 propagated and distributed many of the kind to 

 different nurserymen and others round London. A 

 few were sent to the Southampton Nursery, where 



