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APPLE. 



Chiswick, the author cannot help paying a well- 

 merited corapliment to Mr. Thompson, who has the 

 management of the hardy-fruit department in that 

 establishment. His steady character as a man, and 

 his intelligence, perseverance, and experience as a 

 fruit-grower, render him every way competent for 

 such a station; and the best results may be expected 

 from his exertions and abilities, in fixing the nomen- 

 clature, and recording the true characteristics of all 

 our most valuable British fruits now in cultivation. 

 A corrected new edition of the Society's Catalogue 

 will be, after a few years' more experience, anxiously 

 expected ; and then will be regarded as a standard 

 directory for every cultivator in the kingdom. 



The following are eayly and late winter and spring 

 apples. 



32. Margin, — This very excellent dessert apple 

 is in perfection from November to February. Its 

 quality is little inferior to the nonpareil in favourable 

 seasons, and is-also sooner ripe. In size, the fruit 

 is small, somewhat egg-shaped, and of alight-russet 

 colour tinged with red on the sun side, changing to 

 yellow when ripe. The pulp is melting, and full of 

 fine rich juice. The tree is generally healthy, though 

 of diminutive growth, resembling, in some degree, 

 the nonpareil. It forms a good standard of the third 

 class in the orchard. As espaliers on the crab, and 

 as dwarfs on the paradise stock, none answer better. 

 The origin of this favourite apple has not been 

 clearly traced. The author has known it for seventy 



