EASTERN COUNTIES I CAMBRIDGE, ESSEX. 



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C AMBRID GESHIRE. 



Exhibitor. 



1. — Mr. Arthur Bull, Bernard House, Cambridge. 



Exhibitor's Bemarhs. — Grown on Standard trees, grafted 

 mostly on the Crab stock. Situation, open. Soil, a brick loam; 

 subsoil, blue clay. When I visited the Show, I noticed a great 

 scarcity from Cambridge and Hants. On these grounds I beg 

 to call attention to our local sorts : — Murfitt's Seedling, a pro- 

 lific variety, in use from November till late spring. Histon 

 Favourite, a very prolific variety, in use from July to November. 

 For kitchen and dessert we have nothing to equal this in our 

 neighbourhood. In the selection made, I should have liked to 

 have included Dumelow's Seedling, but of late years it has been 

 so much blighted that it has become useless to grow it. Mr. 

 Gladstone, so far as I can see at present, will do well. 



List of Varieties of Apples suitable for Cultivation 

 in Cambridgeshire. 



Selected by Mr. A. Bull, Bernard House, Cottenham, 

 Cambridge. 



Dessert Apples. 



Cox's Orange Pippin, Blenheim Orange, Histon Favourite, 

 Irish Peach, Kerry Pippin, Lord Lennox, Mr. Gladstone, Red 

 Juneating, Red Quarrenden. 



Culinary Apples. 



Ecklinville Seedling, Histon Favourite, Keswick Codlin, Lord 

 Suffield, Murfitt's Seedling. 



ESSEX. 



Exhibitors. 



1. — Messrs. Saltmarsh & Sons, Nurserymen, Chelmsford. 



Exhibitors' Bemarhs. — Grown on various forms of trees, 

 chiefly on the Crab stock. Situation in and near Chelmsford, for 

 the most part low and sheltered. Soil, a rich loam, free from 

 sand ; subsoil, varying from loamy gravel to brick earth. 



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