WESTERN COUNTIES I GLOUCESTERSHIRE. 



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Selection op Twelve Varieties most suited for Culture 

 in the District, Named in Order op Succession. 

 Irish Peach, Lord Suffield, Ecklinville Seedling, Frogmore 

 Prolific, King of the Pippins, Cox's Orange Pippin, Dumelow's 

 Seedling, Blenheim Orange, Bess Pool, Tower of Glamis, 

 Winter Hawthornden, Stone Apple. 



Selection of Ten Varieties suited for Market Culture. 



Lord Suffield, Keswick Codlin, King of Pippins, Cox's Orange 

 Pippin, Blenheim Orange, Warner's King, Bess Pool, Tom 

 Putt, Dumelow's Seedling, Stirling Castle. Generally speaking 

 this is not a marketing district. 



3. — Messrs. Wheeler & Sons, Nurserymen, Gloucester. 



Observations. — A very clear-skinned, well-grown collestion. 



Exhibitors' Uzmarks. — Grown on Pyramid and Bush trees 

 from 3 to 5 years of age, grafted on the Paradise stock. 

 Situation, in open quarters in nursery ; soil, light ; subsoil, 

 gravel. Trees grown in the form of Pyramids or Bushes occupy 

 but a small space in the garden, and at the same time are very 

 productive, and of an attractive appearance. They are worthy 

 of extended cultivation in this form. 



List of Varieties of Apples suitable for Cultivation in 

 Gloucestershire. 



Selected (1883) by 



Messrs. J. Jefferies & Sons, Cirencester. 

 Mr. T. Shingles, Tortworth Court, Gloucester, 

 Messrs. J. C. Wheeler & Sons, Gloucester. 



Dessert Apples. 



Name 



No. of 

 Votes 



Name 



No. of 

 Votes 



Ashmead's Kernel . . \ 





DevonshireQuarrendenv 







Cox's Orange Pippin . 





Duke of Devonshire . 







King of the Pippins . . 



3 



Fearn's Pippin . . 







Margil 



Lamb Abbey Pear- 







Ribston Pippin . . . 





main 



> 





Court Pendu Plat . . \ 





London Pippin . . 



1 



Irish Peach . . . . [ 



2 



Old Nonpareil . . . 





Kerry Pippin . . . I 





Scarlet Nonpareil . . 







Wyken Pippin . . . ) 





Sturmer Pippin . . 







Adams' Pearmain . . ) 



1 



Wormsley Pippin . . 







Braddick's Nonpareil . J 





Yellow Ingestrie . . ) 







p 



