MIDLAND COUNTIES, NORTH '. RUTLANDSHIRE. 



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• Exhibitor's Bemarks. — None are grown expressly for market 

 in this district. Situation, sheltered, at the bottom of a valley 

 close to the river Chater — the coldest place in the neighbourhood. 

 Apple trees are well sheltered by forest trees. Soil, part old 

 garden, part clayey loam ; subsoil, limestone, containing a lot of 

 ironstone in many places. 



General Bemarks. — Standard trees are preferred if the situa- 

 tion is not too much exposed ; very little pruning is done, except 

 when in a young state, to obtain a well balanced head, and 

 when large, a few of the weaker branches are thinned out about 

 once in four years. When the situation is much exposed, Bush 

 trees are considered the best, restricted to 10 or 12 feet in 

 height, by pruning at midsummer, and again in autumn or early 

 spring. 



Manure is given when the trees give indications of requiring 

 a stimulant, by removing the soil until the roots are found, placing 

 a good layer of farmyard dung all over, and returning the soil 

 on the top as before ; this is done in the autumn. If any of 

 these Bush trees get unfruitful through growing too vigorously, 

 we take out a trench all round at 4 feet from the stem of the 

 tree, and deep enough to cut off all the principal roots, and in 

 extreme cases we lift the tree, prune the roots, and replant. All 

 our trees are on the Crab stock. 



2. — Mr. John Geey, Normanton Park, Stamford, Rutland. 



Selection of Twenty-four Varieties most suited for 

 Culture in the District, Named in Order of Succession. 



Keswick Codlin, Lord Sum eld, Cellini, Cox's Pomona, 

 Stirling Castle, Ecklinville, Gravenstein, Manks' Codlin, Wor- 

 cester Pearmain, Peasgood's Nonesuch, Pinder's Apple, Small's 

 Admirable, Golden Spire, Kirke's Fame, Alfriston, Nelson 

 Codlin, New Hawthornden, Dumelow's Seedling, Tower of 

 Glamis, King of the Pippins, Schoolmaster, Bibston Pippin, 

 Annie Elizabeth, Northern Greening. 



Selection of Twelve Varieties most suited for Culture 

 in the District, Named in Order of Succession. 



Lord Suffield, Stirling Castle, Ecklinville, Peasgood's None- 

 such, Pinder's Apple, Kirke's Fame, Alfriston, Small's Admirable, 

 Schoolmaster, Northern Greening, Annie Elizabeth, Dumelow's 

 Seedling. 



Exhibitor's Bemarks. — Situation: ground inclining to the 

 north, but sheltered on all sides by trees. Soil, old garden ; 

 subsoil, red conglomerate. 



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