SOUTHERN COUNTIES '. SURREY. 



6.— Mr. H. Matthews, Betchworth Park. 



Observations.— Examples very good, especially those of Cox's 

 Pomona and Yorkshire Beauty — the latter named Palmer's 

 Glory. 



^ Exhibitor's Remarks. — Fruit grown on Standards chiefly, 

 being good, , large, healthy trees, in open orchards. Soil, in 

 some parts light and sandy, in others heavy with a clay subsoil. 

 Eibston Pippin cankers very much, also Dumelow's Seedling, 

 the young wood dying every year as soon as the roots reach the 

 gravel. Ground, rather wet in this district. Being in the 

 valley of the Mole, we are subject to spring frosts. 



7. — Mr. J. M'Intosh, Dimeevan, Weybridge, Surrey. Gardener, 



Mr. T. Taylor. 



Observations. — Examples very fine, remarkably clear skinned. 



Exhibitor's Remarks. — Trees grown mostly as Pyramids, 

 varying in age from 6 to 20 or more years, grafted on the Crab 

 and Paradise. Situation, sheltered. Soil, light ; subsoil, wet 

 sand. King of the Pippins, Court of Wick, and Pearson's Plate 

 bear best in this soil as Standards, also Dumelow's Seedling ; 

 and as Pyramids, Alfriston, Landsberger Reinette, and Ecklinville. 

 The Pyramids every second year are cut round 2 feet 6 inches 

 from the stem, roots raised,-"fresh soil being added, which is 

 trodden firm and mulched on the surface, thereby producing 

 fine fruit. 



8. — Messrs. J. Peed & Sons, Ronpell Park Nursery, Tulse Hill. 



Selection of Twenty-four Varieties most suited for 

 Culture in the District, Named in Order of Succession. 



Mr. Gladstone, Irish Peach, Duchess of Oldenburg, Kerry 

 Pippin, Worcester Pearmain, King of the Pippins, Cox's Orange 

 Pippin, Cellini, Blenheim Orange, The Queen, Schoolmaster, 

 Scarlet Nonpareil, Sturmer Pippin, Keswick Codlin, Lord Suffield, 

 Ecklinville Seedling, Peasgood's Nonesuch, Small's Admirable, 

 New Hawthornden, Pott's Seedling, Domino, Tower of Glamis, 

 Warner's King, Bramley Seedling, Lane's Prince Albert, 

 Wellington. 



Situation, very exposed. Character of soil, 2 feet sandy 

 loam resting on about 2 to 3 feet of strong loam, under that 10 

 feet of gravel. 



General Remarks.— VJe use generally for Espaliers, Cordons, 

 Bushes, or Pyramids, the English Paradise stock ; and for Standard 



