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2. — Mr. G. W. Cummins, Gardener to A. H. Smee, Esq., The 

 Grange, Wallington, Surrey. 



Exhibitor's Bemarhs. — The fruits were grown on Standards 

 and on Bushes, or hollow bowl-shaped trees, which are preferred 

 here, where many are grown upon a small extent of ground. 

 They are from 6 to 25 years of age. Standards are worked on 

 Crab, small Bushes on Paradise. Situation, damp, sheltered by 

 large forest trees. Soil, a peaty bog, but improved by long 

 cultivation ; subsoil, wet inferior gravel. Eibston Pippins 

 generally bear well, but the trees are more subject to canker than 

 any other sort. When the roots reach the wet gravel, they 

 seldom fruit satisfactorily. 



Selection of Twenty-four Varieties most suited for 

 Culture in the District, Named in Order of Succession. 



Kitchen. — Cellini, Lord Suffield, Stirling Castle, New Haw- 

 thornden, Lord Derby, Golden Noble, Blenheim Orange, Warner's 

 King, Beauty of Kent, Wellington, Lane's Prince Albert, Winter 

 Peach. Dessert. — Early Harvest, Irish Peach, Kerry Pippin, 

 Worcester Pearmain, Ribston Pippin, Cox's Orange Pippin, 

 Brownlee's Russet, Scarlet Nonpareil, Duke of Devonshire, 

 Cornish Aromatic, Court Pendu Plat, Sturmer Pippin. 



Selection of Twelve Varieties most suited for Culture 

 in the District, Named in Order of Succession. 



Kitchen. — Cellini, Lord Suffield, Stirling Castle, New Haw- 

 thornden, Blenheim Orange, Wellington. Dessert. — Irish Peach, 

 Kerry Pippin, Ribston Pippin, Cox's Orange Pippin, Duke of 

 Devonshire, Court Pendu Plat. 



Selection of Ten Varieties suited for Market Culture. 



Lord Suffield, Stirling Castle, New Hawthornden, Blenheim 

 Orange, Wellington, Cox's Pomona, Devonshire Quarrenden, 

 Gravenstein, Ribston Pippin, Cox's Orange Pippin. 



Exhibitor's Bemarhs. — Very few apples are grown in this 

 district specially for market. 



In planting young trees we take out all the old soil from 

 the space needed, break up the gravel, putting in a quantity 

 of coarser brick rubbish, which is covered with a thick layer 

 of turf. We add two barrowsful of strong yellow loam, one 

 of burnt garden refuse, and the same quantity of lime rubbish, 

 the whole being turned and mixed together. The hole is 

 filled level with the surface of the ground, and then the tree is 

 placed in position, and some richer soil is worked in among 

 the roots, finished off with a heavy mulching of stable manure. 



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