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Eibston Pippin, Alfriston, St. Sauveur, Lord Burghley, Pearson's 

 Plate, Hawthornden, and Lord Suffield being about the worst in 

 that respect. 



Selection op Twenty-foue Varieties most suited for 

 Culture in the District, Named in Order of Succession. 



Dessert. — Red Astrachan, Devonshire Quarrenden, King of the 

 Pippins, Blenheim Orange, Cox's Orange Pippin, Eibston Pippin 

 Mannington's Pearmain, Reinette de Canada, Fearn's Pippin, 

 Scarlet Nonpareil, Duke of Devonshire, Sturmer Pippin. 



Kitchen. — Lord Suffield, Ecklinville Pippin, Stirling Castle, 

 Keswick Codlin, Cox's Pomona, Peasgood's Nonesuch, Mere de 

 Menage, Nonesuch, Tower of Glamis, Alfriston, Northern Green- 

 ing, Dumelow's Seedling. 



3. — Mr. H. J. Clayton, The Gardens, Grimston Park, Tadcaster, 



Yorhs. 



Exhibitor's Bemarks. — Grown mostly on Standard and dwarf 

 Bush-shaped trees, slightly pruned, and not hard spurred in. 

 Taking all points into consideration, we consider this form the 

 best, both for private use and market. The best fruit is obtained 

 from young trees 10 to 12 years old. The trees are all on the 

 Crab stock. Situation, sheltered from north and east. We find 

 that if it be fully exposed to the south-west much fruit is lost 

 by the winds. Soil, one part good and loamy, resting on mag- 

 nesian limestone, the other on alluvial soil ; subsoil, sandy, in 

 some cases a deep warpy loam, just above the water mark of 

 periodical flooding of the River Wharf. Grown in the latter 

 condition the fruit is generally very fine for the north. I have 

 known 40 stones of fruit picked from a tree of so-called Red 

 Balsam, or Scarlet Cockpit. To-day, October 12, we have 

 picked 35 stones from a Standard tree of Lewis's Incomparable. 

 There is a good deal of fruit grown hereabouts considering the 

 latitude. I have been trying to induce those most interested to 

 plant more Apples for some years past. Standards are the most 

 liked, because the ground beneath can be cropped or laid down 

 in grass, the cattle not damaging the trees to any extent. For 

 my own part I prefer Bush-shaped trees, if the fruit alone is to 

 be considered, because of the ease in gathering the fruit, and 

 because the trees are ready of access, they can be more 

 regularly pruned, and will consequently produce finer fruit — an 

 important advantage. Further, there would not be such heavy 

 losses by winds in the autumn. For choice dessert Apples I do 

 not think there is a more profitable way to grow them than by 

 Espaliers. Pyramidal- shaped trees we do not care much about, 

 unless the natural habit of the tree causes it to grow in that 



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