102 THE OECHARD AND PETJIT aARDE]S^. 



aromatic flavour, with just sufficient piquancy. It is a 

 most delicious and handsome-looking dessert apple; it 

 should be gathered in Octoberj and will keep until 

 March or April, but is ill its greatest perfection about 

 Christmas, or rather sooner. I do not think it is a A^ery 

 abundant bearer, but it is such a superior apple that no 

 garden should be without it. So popular an apple is 

 sure to have many names: it is called Glory of York 

 (Eibston Hall, where the seedling was grown, is at 

 Xnaresborough, in Yorkshire), Formosa Pippin, Traver's, 

 and Traver's Apple. 



The Grolden Eeinette is a nice, and nice-looking apple, 

 below the middle size, round, regular in the outline, 

 flattened at the ends, greenish-yellow, smooth in the 

 skin, and a little ruddy on the sunny side. The flesh 

 is pale yellow, firm, crisp, sweet, and rich in flavour. 

 It is a nice dessert apple from October to rebruary. 

 The trees grow well and bear well. This apple is 

 popular in the London markets, and a tree of it 

 deserves a place in the garden. Other names for it are 

 Aurore, Yellow German Eeinette, English Pippin, 

 Eirke's Golden Pippin, and "Wyker Pippin. 



Supposing a garden has room for only six trees, I 

 should choose no early apple at all, but depend on 

 buying at the time when all fruit is comparatively cheap 

 and good. Alfriston for cooking, and Beauty of Kent, 

 or Emperor Alexander, and Nonesuch ; or, if in a warm, 

 favourable locality. Golden Pippin, for eating, would 

 carry on the supply to Christmas, and three good 

 keeping kinds might go on to the end of the season. 

 Three better could scarcely be chosen than Blenheim. 

 Orange, Eeinette de Canada, and Calville Blanche, or 

 Eibston Pippin. If space can be found for a few others, 

 choose Golden JSToble, Beauty of Kent, and, as one good 

 early sort, the Irish Peach Apple. 



Mr. Elvers, in his useful little book, " The Miniature 

 Eruit Garden," gives the following twenty good sorts as 

 calculated for dwarf culture on the Paradise or Douciu 

 stock. 



