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Habits of Growth in Apple Trees. [June, 



Among the most vigorous growers is Bramley's Seedling, 

 which needs, however, somewhat severe cutting back in its 

 early stages to induce a multiplication of branches, as it 

 naturally sends out only a few long ones thinly disposed and 

 somewhat upright. Warner's King is as free a grower as 

 Bramley, and more branching. Few, if any, varieties require 

 more room. It needs very little pruning after it has been 

 planted six years. Domino is a fairly strong grower, which 

 shapes itself with a minimum of assistance, the chief pruning 

 required, when it does not attempt to form fruit buds too early 

 in its life, being the thinning out of internal shoots, which 

 are apt to be numerous. 



The most upright grower among my culinary apples is 

 Golden Spire, a somewhat feeble grower, and a great fruiter 

 in alternate seasons. Two trees of this variety require no 

 more room than one Warner's King, which therefore occupies 

 too much space when grown with more spreading varieties 

 or where uniform distance from tree to tree is necessary. 

 If left to itself, this variety grows long and slender upright 

 branches, which are covered with apples from the bases to 

 nearly the tips, as a rule, in every second season, while quite 

 devoid of fruit in the alternate years. Newton Wonder, one 

 of the most valuable of late-keeping apples, grows sturdily 

 and in spreading form, needing very little pruning. Chelms- 

 ford Wonder is another free and spreading grower. 



The most highly prized of all late-keeping apples, Wel- 

 lington, is a failure in my soil, though elsewhere I have 

 grown it easily and in good form. It is, however, only a 

 moderate grower at the best, and is liable to canker. Lord 

 Derby is another moderate grower, in form much more com- 

 pact than Wellington. With me it grows feebly over the 

 sand, but freely and in perfect form over the clay. Queen 

 is a vigorous variety of spreading habit and excellent shape, 

 needing a minimum of pruning. 



Gascoyne's Scarlet is used both for cooking and for 

 dessert. The tree is a very vigorous grower of spreading 

 habit, but tends to form long and somewhat thinly disposed 

 branches with few fruit-buds. It needs somewhat severe 

 pruning in the early stages to keep this tendency in check. 

 Another apple used for both purposes is Duchess of Olden- 



