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6. — Mr. J. Smith, Gardener to Lord Rosebery, Mentmore, 

 Leighton Buzzard. 



Exhibitor's Remarks. — Our largest and finest fruit are from 

 small Bush trees on the Paradise stock. Trees all grow freely 

 and are free from canker or blight of any sort. Situation, 

 exposed to east and south, sheltered from north and west. Soil, 

 a strong loam on clay. 



7.— Mr. C. Turner, Royal Nurseries, Slough. 



Selection op Twenty-four Varieties most suited for 

 Culture in the District, Named in Order of Succession. 



Gladstone, Astrachan, Quarrenden, Lord Sufneld, Stirling 

 Castle, Frogmore Prolific, Keswick Codlin, Cox's Pomona, Cellini 

 Pippin, Grenadier, Duchess's Favourite, King of the Pippins, 

 Blenheim Orange, Scarlet Pearmain, Winter Hawthornden, 

 Cox's Orange Pippin, Beauty of Kent, Kentish Fillbasket, Fearn's 

 Pippin, Rosemary Eusset, Scarlet Nonpareil, Prince Albert, 

 Hanwell Souring, Wellington. 



Selection of Twelve Varieties most suited for Culture 

 in the District, Named in Order of Succession. 



Quarrenden, Lord Sufneld, Stirling Castle, Ecklinville, 

 Cellini Pippin, Blenheim, Cox's Orange, Rosemary Russet, 

 Fearn's Pippin, Prince Albert, Scarlet Nonpareil, Wellington. 



Exhibitor's Remarks. — Grown in all kinds of situations, and 

 grafted on the Crab and Paradise stocks ; soil heavy. 



8.— Messrs. James Veitch & Sons, Langley. 



Selection of Twenty-four Varieties most suited for 

 Culture in the District. 



Lord Sufneld, Pott's Seedling, Stirling Castle, Worcester 

 Pearmain, Warner's King, Cellini, Blenheim Pippin, Northern 

 Greening, Dumelow's Seedling, Alfriston, Baumann's Red 

 Reinette, Reinette de Canada, White Juneating, Devonshire 

 Quarrenden, Kerry Pippin, American Mother, King of the Pippins, 

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

 Adams' Pearmain, Lord Burghley, Cockle's Pippin, Old Non- 

 pareil. 



Situation, very open and exposed ; subsoil, heavy loamy soil 

 about 12 inches in depth, over a pan 8 feet to 6 feet of brick 

 earth with gravel underneath. 



