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JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



5. — Mr. McDonald, Woodlands House, Perth. 



Observations. — Examples of Cellini, very large and fine, 

 stated to have been grown on Cordon on Paradise stock. 



6. — Mr. John Keid, Gardener to The Honourable Mrs. Trotter, 

 Ballindean, Inchture. 



Observations. — A fairly good collection, the fruit being of 

 good size, but wanting in colour. 



Exhibitor's Remarks. — Grown on Standard and Bush trees 

 about 50 years old, but little interfered with in the way of prun- 

 ing, and allowed plenty of room. They are mostly grafted on 

 the Free stock, some on Paradise, and grown in open orchard on 

 grass. Soil, a good loam, with clay subsoil. I sent a very small 

 collection of Apples, some 20 sorts, but they comprise nearly all 

 the kinds of real value in the East of Scotland ; at least all that 

 have come under my observation, and I happen to have had a 

 good deal to do with Apples. The orchard, which I have had for 

 30 years under my charge (some 8 or 10 acres), was planted by 

 my father-in-law about 60 years ago ; and he, being a great 

 fancier of Apples, gathered together all the varieties he could 

 secure. Many of these I have regrafted with others, but still 

 we have about 100 sorts, specimens of which I might have for- 

 warded. As I have sold fruit in the Dundee Market, which is 

 perhaps the largest market in Scotland for home-grown Apples, 

 I am able to assert that there are not more than 20 or 30 sorts 

 of any value that ever appear in the market. One-half of our 

 present kinds of Apples ought to be swept out of the list altogether, 

 as small Apples are a perfect drug in the market. I find that 

 any good soft eating Apple will sell in the summer months, 

 but the kinds that are the most valuable are the Codlins, and 

 Apples of that sort. They can be sold in large quantities, big 

 and little, just as they come off the trees, for making jelly. 

 Eating or table Apples are but little sought after in August or 

 September, as there are plenty of other fruits, but in October 

 such sorts as Irish Green, Winter Strawberry, Lady's Finger, 

 and King of the Pippins sell fairly well. Thirty years ago there 

 was scarcely any use for cooking Apples, good eating Apples 

 being all that was required ; now the whole demand is for large 

 cooking Apples, while eating or dessert Apples (for winter 

 especially) are driven out of the market by the American kinds. 

 Warner's King, Stirling Castle, Manks' Codlin, Hawthornden, 

 and Cellini are varieties that pay well for autumn use ; and 

 Yorkshire Greening, Tower of Glamis, and Grey Cheek for winter . 

 use, the latter being a very valuable sort. These Apples I have 

 named were the leading sorts 30 years ago, and they are the 

 leading'sorts still. 



