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supply of each, it is well in starting to plant also a few trial rows 

 of various other sorts, one row of each, to see how they succeed, 

 with a view to planting extensively in future those which prove 

 the best for the district. 



The following is a list of culinary apples of good quality which 

 fruit freely, and afford a succession from August until April, 

 if the grower should be disposed to keep the last one named : — 

 Early Julyan, Domino, Lord Grosvenor, Warner's King, Lord 

 Derby, Bramley's Seedling, Lane's Prince Albert, and Newton 

 Wonder. There are many other varieties as good as any 

 of these, which are named because they are all desirable, and 

 because they are in season one after the other as long as 

 any apples can be kept. The following dessert apples would 

 afford a supply from August to the end of the year, or possibly 

 longer : — Mr. Gladstone, Beauty of Bath, Worcester Pearmain, 

 King of the Pippins, and Cox's Orange Pippin. For later use, 

 Mannington's Pearmain, Claygate Pearmain, and Duke of 

 Devonshire, though not grown very extensively for market, 

 may " be planted on a limited scale, as they are of excellent 

 quality and flavour, and will all keep up to March, the last 

 being credited with keeping until April. 



Plums of excellent repute for a succession are Rivers's Early 

 Prolific, Czar, Victoria, Pond's Seedling, and Monarch. Pears 

 are not very extensively grown for market in this country, and 

 those which are grown are chiefly early and not very choice 

 varieties, as few of the best are sure bearers, and pears from 

 California compete severely with our best fruit late in the 

 autumn and during tlie winter. Clapp's Favourite is one of the 

 best early pears, and Williams's Bon Chretien is a favourite 

 market variety. Hessel is most largely grown in orchards near 

 London and in Kent. Fertility, like Hessel, is a great bearer, 

 and superior to it in quality, but a little later. Louise Bonne of 

 Jersey is one of the most delicious of early pears, and a good 

 bearer, but not a strong grower unless on very rich or heavily- 

 manured land. Marie Louise d'Uccle, Emile D'Heyst, and 

 Pitmaston Duchess are grown for market to a limited extent. 



Damsons are planted at the present time mainly as shelter 

 trees. King of the Damsons is perhaps the best variety ; but 

 the Worcestershire Prune is most commonly grown in the 



