1920. 



Profitable Apples for Market. 



293 



BEAUTY OF BATH. Aug. 



The best early dessert variety. Small to medium, orange, prettily striped 

 and spotted with red. Quality excellent, but the fruit ripens unevenly and 

 should be picked over several times. Carries well, but must be marketed soon 

 after picking. Inclined to be a shy cropper. Succeeds on either "free" 

 or dwarfing stock, but does best as a bush in the latter. Growth strong, 

 spreading and irregular, often causing trees to be one-sided. Chiefly used cis a 

 permanent tree ; also suitable as a cordon. Free from canker and scab, and 

 succeeds in most districts. 



BISMARCK. Oct.— Dec. 



Culinary variety ol good quality. Large, heavily flushed with dark 

 crimson. Keeps and carries well and is a good cropper. Suitable for bush 

 and half -standard. Fairly strong grower, moderately upright in growth. 

 Does better in the North than in the South. Inclined to scab and mildew. 



BLENHEIM ORANGE. Nov.— Feb. 



A valuable variety of excellent quality for cooking or dessert. Medium 

 to large. Golden yellow with a flushed cheek and russeted . Carries and keeps 

 well. Takes some 3'ears to come into bearing, and for this reason is seldom 

 planted now except in grass orchards. A strong grower and forms a spreading 

 tree. Free from disease. 



BRAMLEY'S SEEDLING. Nov.— March. 



The best late market culinary apple. Large, flat, green, sometimes with 

 a dull red cheek. Excellent quality and commands the highest price of all 

 culinary apples. Carries and keeps well, especially the smaller samples, which, 

 if stored until after Christmas, command a high price. A heavy cropper when 

 trees are formed, but inclined to be biennial in habit. A very strong grower 

 and forms a la.ge, spreading tree. Succeeds best as standard or half -standard 

 on "free " stock, but for bush trees must be grown on dwarfing stock. Very 

 free from scab, canker and other fungoid diseases. Succeeds over a wide 

 range of soils and situations, and is the best variety with which to top-graft 

 unsuitable sorts. This should not be confused \\'ith Crimson Bramley, which 

 is inferior. 



COX'S ORANGE PIPPIN. Nov.— Jan. 



A dessert apple of the best quality. Size medium to small. Round, 

 orange, shaded and striped with dull red. Carries well. A very unreliable 

 cropper and only a moderate grower of somewhat spreading habit. Should 

 be grown either as bush or cordon on dwarfing stocks. Very subject to scab, 

 mildew and canker, especially on heavy, cold soils. Seems to succeed best on 

 gravelly soils. As a commercial variety is a speculation . 



EARLY VICTORIA or EMNETH EARLY. Aug.— Sept. 



Good quality early cooker. Medium size, green (Codlin type). Bears 

 freely at an early age and is liable to overcrop. Pays to thin when the thinnings 

 are large enough to sell. Growth of medium strength and of upright habit. 

 Requires free stock and naturally forms a good bush, but will also do as half- 

 standard. More suitable as a " filler " than for a permanent tree. Usually 

 free from both apple scab and canker. 



ECKLINVILLE SEEDLING. Aug.— Sept. 



E^rly culinary variety of good quality. Large, greenish-yellow covered 

 with large, scattered dots. Soft, and does not keep or carr}^ well if allowed to 

 get too ripe. Prolific and strong, with a more or less upright growth, forming 

 a large standard or bush. The latter should be on a dwarfing stock. Too 

 strong for a filler. Very subject to canker and scab, and for this reason should 

 not be planted unless known to thrive in the district. 



EGREMONT RUSSET. Aug.— Sept. 



A useful variety for local dessert trade, but liable to be small except from 

 cordons. Golden-yellow covered with russet. Carries well and is a good 

 cropper. GroAN-th moderate, compact and inclined to be upright. F^orm as 

 very useful bush or cordon, but is no good as a standard. 



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