MIDLAND COUNTIES, SOUTH I BEDFORD, BUCKINGHAM. 189 



BEDFORDSHIRE. 



Exhibitor. 



1; — Mr. Thomas Laxton, Girtford, Bedford. 



Exhibitor's, Remarks. — Grown on Bush trees, 2 to 3 years 

 old, grafted on English Paradise. Situation, exposed, and sub- 

 ject to spring frosts. Soil, a sandy loam on gravel. The 

 majority of those named bear very freely every year. Irish 

 Peach, the Blenheim Orange, and Bibston Pippin rarely fruit 

 well. The Old and New Hawthornden and Annie Elizabeth, 

 good elsewhere, suffer here from canker, and do not fruit. 



Varieties of Apples suited to Bedfordshire. 



Selected by Mb. Thomas Laxton, Bedford. 



Dessebt Apples. 



Court Pendu Plat, Cox's Orange Pippin, Early Julien, 

 Franklin's Golden Pippin, Margaret, Mr. Gladstone, Quarrenden, 

 Scarlet Pearmain, Stamford Pippin, Stunner Pippin, Worcester 

 Pearmain, Wyken Pippin. 



Culinaby Apples. 



Cellini, Ecklinville Seedling, French Crab, Grenadier, Golden 

 Noble, Keswick Codlin, Lord Derby, Lord Suffield, Peasgood's 

 Nonesuch, Schoolmaster, Warner's King, Wellington (Dumelow's 

 Seedling). 



BUCKINGHAMSHIRE. 



Exhibitors. 



1. — Mr. A. Bbidgman, Gardener to T. S. Cocks, Esq., 

 Thames Bank, Marloiv. 



Exhibitor's Bemarks. — The best dishes in my collection were 

 grown on young trees planted during the last 10 years, mostly- 

 Dwarf, Bush, or Espaliers, grafted on the Crab. Situation, 

 sheltered by garden walls. The soil of the Thames valley 

 varies in this locality from clay and marl to gravel and sand, 

 sometimes all four occurring within a distance of a few yards. 

 Apples planted in the marl make vigorous growth and large 

 trees, bearing crops in favourable seasons ; on a subsoil of 

 gravel, however, they make less growth, bear far more freely, 

 and soon wear out. 



