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Exhibitors, 



1.— Mr. Geokge Edgae, Gardener, Crossgar, Co. Down. 

 2.— Mr. H. Walkee, Berry. 



Observations. — Examples deficient in colour. 



Exhibitor's Remarks. — The two finest dessert Apples here are 

 the Irish Peach and Summer Strawberry ; the former is a fine 

 habited tree, and a sure bearer, but the fruits are not large ; the 

 latter is a thin bearer, but equal in quality to any of the 

 American kinds. In our windy climate both are deserving of 

 walls ; they are not pruned, the shoots being simply laid in. 

 Ecklinville and Keswick Codlin are very fine free-bearing sorts. 

 Lord Suffield, as a dwarf tree, bears a greater weight than any 

 other, and the fruit are larger. King of the Pippins bears very 

 freely, the fruit being of splendid colour, hanging like ropes of 

 onions, and at a distance resembling a crop of oranges. Our 

 local " Ballyfatten " is a constant bearer, of a dry, mild flavour, 

 and is an excellent baker. "Green Chisel," "Green Sweet,'" and 

 " Red Kane " are local sorts of repute. The " Jane Moyle " 

 (Jennet Moyle), brought by the monks to Mongavelin Castle, 

 near here, is as fine as a Eibston. I would say that single 

 vertical Apple trees on walls would supply high-class fruits, 

 without spurring or "pinching," as it is called here, as this 

 treatment has decimated everything in our soft climate. Long- 

 wooded kinds require space and time to mature ; cutting back 

 closely is productive of immature shoots, and pinching is infi- 

 nitely worse. 



