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heads. Many growers prefer the middle of the head taken out 

 when young so as to form basin-shape, as it is called here, which 

 seems to answer well. Driving through this district a few days 

 ago, I was much struck with a lot of good trees of Wellington in 

 full bearing about 10 to 20 years old. The branches had been 

 shored up, so heavy was the crop of fine, clean fruit. Some of 

 the growers said they should store a thousand bushels of Welling- 

 ton. The largest fruit of the Wellington Apple I saw was on 

 turf, fed by sheep fatted with oil-cake. Cox's Orange Pippin 

 Apple is not so clean in many plantations as in former 

 years. The best and cleanest fruits are from trees on heavy 

 soil. Worcester Pearmain Apple on young trees is good and 

 clean, but lacking colour. The birds are very troublesome with 

 this variety, pecking holes in the fruit. Older orchard trees 

 have suffered very much from maggots this season. To get good 

 Apples from orchard trees manure requires to be used freely as 

 top dressing, otherwise many trees become exhausted. 



14. — Mr. A. Waterman, Preston Rail Gardens, Aylesford. 



Observations. — Examples pale in colour and small. 



Exhibitor's Remarks. — Grown on Standard trees about 34 

 years old, pruned every year, the branches being spurred in. Soil, 

 a light loam, about 3 feet deep, resting on Kentish rag and 

 gravel. 



Selection of Twenty-four Varieties most suited for 

 Culture in the District, Named in Order of Succession. 



Mr. Gladstone, Eed Astrachan, Eed Quarrenden, Lord 

 Suffield, Gravenstein, Ecklinville, Stirling Castle, King of 

 the Pippins, Stone's, New Hawthornden, Small's Admirable, 

 Mother, Cox's Orange Pippin, Blenheim Orange, Tower of 

 Glamis, Warner's King, Lady Henniker, Lane's Prince Albert, 

 Scarlet Nonpareil, Annie Elizabeth, Wellington, Yorkshire 

 Greening, Sturmer Pippin, Court Pendu Plat. 



Selection of Twelve Varieties most suited for Culture 

 in the District, Named in Order of Succession. 



Mr. Gladstone, Eed Astrachan, Lord Suffield, Ecklinville 

 Seedling, Stirling Castle, King of the Pippins, Stone's, New 

 Hawthornden, Cox's Orange Pippin, Blenheim Orange, Tower 

 of Glamis. 



