WESTERN COUNTIES I DEVONSHIRE. 



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DEVONSHIRE. 



Exhibitors. 



1. — Mr. J. Garland, Gardener to Sir T. D. Acland, Bart., M.P., 

 Killerton, Exeter. 



Exhibitor's Bemarks. — The trees are of all ages ; as old ones 

 fail, young ones are planted to fill up the vacancies. They are 

 all Standards, and grafted on stocks raised from Apple-pips, 

 sown as they come from the cider press. It is the general rule 

 in this county to raise stocks in this way. Situation, exposed to 

 south-west winds. Soil, a red loam on Red Sandstone subsoil. 

 As we have extensive orchards to gather from, very few Apples 

 are grown in the garden. Young, healthy trees are very quickly 

 changed into any new sort, by being headed back moderately short, 

 and 20 or 30 grafts put on them. The trees are periodically 

 pruned, and the heads thinned, to ensure a better bearing 

 throughout the trees ; and they also suffer less from the effects 

 of gales, which are smartly felt here, coming straight off the 

 Dartmoor Hills. The young stocks raised from the pips are 

 locally termed " Gribbles," and are raised chiefly by small market 

 gardeners. The strongest are first selected, and planted back 

 for a year or two, when they are usually bought by the tenant 

 farmers, who plant them out about 3 feet apart, where they 

 remain for one or two years, according to the strength and 

 progress they may have made when they are headed back and 

 grafted. The same season they will make shoots 4 feet or 5 feet 

 long. These are shortened in winter to the required height for 

 Standard trees, and have sufficient room allowed them to make 

 fine healthy heads. Finally, they are transplanted into the 

 orchard, or sold to other farmers, or those who do not raise 

 their own. Tremlett's Bitter is usually grafted on another tree 

 headed down ; being such an enormous bearer, it does not make 

 a good yomig tree in the ordinary way. 



Selection of Twenty-four Varieties most suited for 

 Culture in the District, Named in Order of Succession. 



Dessert. — Irish Peach, Devonshire Quarrenden, King of the 

 Pippins, Cox's Orange Pippin, Blenheim Orange, Adams' Pear- 

 main, Wyken Pippin, Sturmer Pippin. 



Culinary. — Keswick Codlin, Lord Suffield, Hawthornden, 

 Tom Putt, Warner's King, Frogmore Prolific, Pott's Seedling, 

 Cox's Pomona, Cellini, Lady Henniker, Winter Hawthornden, 

 Dumelow's Seedling, Betty Geeson, Mere de Manage, Alfriston, 

 Royal Russet. 



