MIDLAND COUNTIES, SOUTH '. HERTFORDSHIRE. 



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Selection of Ten Varieties suited for Market Culture. 



Keswick, Blenheim Orange, Dredge's Fame, Wellington, 

 Lord Suffield, Tower of Glamis, King of the Pippins, Tibbet's 

 Incomparable, are the sorts in the only two considerable orchards 

 in Cheshunt ; King of the Pippins and Keswick Oodlin are also 

 largely grown in the adjoining parish of Enfield. 



5. — Messrs. Wm. Paul & Son, Nurserymen, &c, Waltham Cross. 



Exhibitors' Remarks. — We grow our fruit principally on 

 young Pyramids, grafted on a variety of stocks — Apple, Crab, 

 Doucin, and Paradise. Situation, open, low, and moist. Soil, a 

 strong loam; subsoil, gravel. Ground dug over and manured 

 annually. We have found it no easy matter to reduce the 

 number of Apples (of which there are, in our judgment, scores of 

 first class quality) to so small a compass. In doing this we 

 have taken the earliest and the latest, and then filled in the 

 interval with sorts furnishing a succession, so that Apples may 

 be in use nearly the whole year round. Hardiness of sorts, with 

 freedom and constancy of bearing, have also largely influenced 

 us in our selection. 



6. — Messrs. T. Rivers & Son, Nurserymen, Sawbridgeivorth : 



Herts. 



Exhibitors' Remarks. — Fruit grown on Pyramids, Cordons, 

 and Bushes, grafted on the Nonesuch Paradise stock and on the 

 Crab. Situation, exposed. The soil of this parish consists 

 generally of drift clay and calcareous gravel, fertile but not rich. 

 The climate is too keen to secure the size and colour of the 

 Kentish Apple Orchards. The crops are good and abundant 

 this season. 



Varieties of Apples suitable for Cultivation in 

 Hertfordshire. 



Selected (1883) by 



Messrs. H. Lane & Son, The Nurseries, BerkJiampstead. 

 Mr. J. C. Mundell, Moor Park, Riekmansicorth. 

 Messrs. Paul & Son, Old Nurseries, Cheshunt. 



„ Wm. Paul & Son, The Nurseries, Waltham Cross. 



„ T. Rivers & Son, The Nurseries, Saivbridgeiuorth. 



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