MIDLAND COUNTIES, NORTH I NOTTINGHAMSHIRE. 200 



8. — Mr. Henry Merryweather,TA<3 Nurseries, Southwell, Notts. 



Exhibitor's Remarks. — Bramley's Seedling Apple was raised 

 at Southwell by Mr. Bramley, and has been grown in the neigh- 

 bourhood for years. We believe it to be the finest marketing 

 Apple in cultivation. It is a very free-bearing variety, having a 

 bold, hardy blossom. It is ready for use as soon as gathered, 

 and will keep good until June. 



4. — Messrs. J. E. Pearson & Son, Chilwell Nurseries, Beeston, 



Notts. 



Observations. — A very instructive contribution, illustrative of 

 pure orchard culture. 



Exhibitors' Remarks. — The greater part of the fruit is from 

 Standard orchard trees, from 50 to 60 years old, grown on the 

 Crab stock ; a few from the nursery, on Paradise. Situation, on 

 the south slope of a hill, but not otherwise sheltered. Soil, 

 clay — both soil and subsoil. 



5. — Mr. N. H. Pownall, Linton Hall Gardens, Nottingham. 

 Exhibitor's Remarks. — About Nottingham, Spencer's Seedling 

 is the common name of the Apple sent ; an older local name 

 given to it is Spencer's Favourite. Brown's Queen Caroline, or 

 Brown's Seedling, is said about Birmingham to be the right 

 name, as it was raised by a nurseryman at Measham, near 

 Ashby-de-la-Zouch, and came into bearing when Queen Caroline's 

 cause was in the law courts — hence its name. 



Varieties of Apples suitable for Cultivation in 

 Nottinghamshire. 



Selected (1883) by Mr. H. Bradley, Southwell, and 

 Messrs. J. R. Pearson & Sons, Chilwell. 



Dessert Apples. 



Name 



No. of 

 Votes 



Name 



No. of 

 Votes 



Blenheim Orange . . ] 





King of the Pippins . \ 







Cox's Orange Pippin . r 



2 









Lord Lennox ... J 





Mr. Gladstone . . . 











Muss Russet . . . 







Bridgewater Pippin 





New Bess Pool . . 







Court Pendu Plat . . 





Old Nonpareil . . . > 



1 



Eve (or Trumpington) 

 Herefordshire Pear- 





Pearmain, Golden 







1 



Pike's Pearmain . . 











Scarlet Nonpareil . . 







Improved Bess Pool . 





Sturmer Pippin . . 







Irish Peach .... 





Woolaton Pippin . . 1 







Juneating White . . / 













