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HARDY FRUIT GARDEN. 



Cornish gttliflower. — Colour dull-green on the 

 shaded side, brownish-red streaked with brighter 

 red, and slightly marked with russet on the side 

 most exposed to the sun. Form ovate, angular 

 on the sides, and ribbed round the eye. Size 

 large. In use from December to May. Quality 

 one of our best dessert apples, remarkable for 

 its rich and aromatic flavour. Tree hardy, at- 

 taining the medium size, but not a great bearer. 

 Mr Hogg remarks, that it produces its fruit at 

 the extremities of the last year's wood, and 

 great care should therefore be taken to preserve 

 the bearing shoots. It succeeds well grafted on 

 the paradise stock, and grown as an espalier 

 and open dwarf, 



Creed's marygold. — Colour deep rich yellow 

 on the shaded side, deep orange next the sun, 

 and covered with beautiful red, striped with 

 darker red on a ground of delicate russet, and 

 thickly strewed with dark russety dots. Form 

 roundish; size medium. In use during Octo- 

 ber and November. Quality excellent as a des- 

 sert apple. Tree hardy, and of slender growth. 

 Raised by Mr Creed, gardener, at Norton Court, 

 Kent, a few years ago, from a seed of the scarlet 

 nonpareil. 



Downton pippin. — Colour fine lemon-yellow, 

 with a slight tinge of red next the sun, marked 

 with a few traces of delicate russet, and strewed 

 with numerous pale-brown dots. Form some- 

 what cylindrical; size small. In use from No- 

 vember to January. Quality good as a dessert 

 fruit, greatly resembling the golden pippin, but 

 less rich in flavour. Tree healthy, and a vigor- 

 ous grower and a most abundant bearer. Raised 

 by Mr Knight of Downton Castle from the seed of 

 the Isle of Wight orange pippin, impregnated 

 with the pollen of the golden pippin. Syno- 

 nyms — Elton pippin, Elton golden pippin, 

 Knight's pippin, Knight's golden pippin, St 

 Mary's pippin, Downton's pippin of Did. 



Dredge's fair maid of Wishford. — Colour yellow, 

 covered with large patches of thin brown russet 

 tinged with orange, and a few red streaks on the 

 side next the sun. Form oblate-cylindrical. 

 Size medium. In use from December to March. 

 Quality fit for the dessert, and excellent for 

 culinary purposes. Tree middle-sized, a free 

 grower, and abundant bearer. 



Dredge's fame. — Colour dingy yellow, with a 

 tinge of green, covered with patches of thin 

 russet, mottled with pale red on the side ex- 

 posed to the sun. Form roundish, inclining to 

 ovate; size above medium. In use from De- 

 cember to March. Tree hardy, coming early 

 into fruit, and an abundant bearer. This and 

 the last originated with a nurseryman named 

 Dredge, of Wishford, near Salisbury. We have 

 grown both these on the chalky soils of Hamp- 

 shire with great satisfaction, but have found 

 them less healthy and productive in Scotland. 



Early harvest. — Colour pale yellowish-green, 

 becoming clear pale yellow as it ripens. Form 

 round. Size medium. In use in the end of 

 July and beginning of August. Quality one of 

 our best very early apples. Tree healthy, but 

 not a vigorous grower, and a most abundant 

 bearer, ' This is of American origin, but suc- 

 ceeds admirably in this country, ripening at 



Dalkeith as a dwarf standard about the middle 

 of August. Synonyms — Early French reinette, 

 Early July pippin, Large white Juneating, Yellow 

 harvest, Prince's yellow harvest. 



Early Julien. — Colour pale yellow, with an 

 orange tinge next the sun strewed over with 

 numerous minute whitish dots ; form round- 

 ish, slightly flattened, and prominently ribbed 

 from the eye downwards to the base ; size 

 medium. In use about the second or third 

 week in August. Tree healthy, hardy, but not 

 a strong grower ; an excellent bearer, rivalling 

 in this respect the Hawthornden, to which it 

 bears some resemblance, and in point of quality 

 is quite equal to it. It is thought to be of 

 Scotch origin, and if so, is one of the best early 

 apples produced in the north. 



Elf or d pippin. — Colour yellowish green, 

 marked with russet on the shaded side ; red, and 

 striped with darker red on the side most ex- 

 posed to the sun ; form roundish, inclining to 

 ovate ; size medium. In use from October to 

 January. Tree healthy, a vigorous grower, and 

 excellent bearer. Quality first-rate as a winter 

 dessert apple. Brought recently into notice by 

 Mr Maund, and conjectured to have originated 

 at Elford, near Lichfield, to which neighbour- 

 hood it is as yet chiefly confined. 



Esopus Spitzenberg. — Colour almost entirely 

 clear bright red, marked with fawn-coloured 

 dots on the side next the sun ; yellow tinged, 

 and streaked with red on the shaded side ; 

 form ovate ; size large. In use from Novem- 

 ber to February. Of its merits under English 

 cultivation, Mr Hogg remarks : " Along with 

 the Newtown pippen it ranks as one of the most 

 productive and profitable orchard fruits, but 

 like many, and indeed almost all the best Ame- 

 rican varieties, it does not attain to that degree 

 of perfection in this country that it does in its 

 native soil. The tree is tender and subject to 

 canker, and the fruit lacks that high flavour and 

 peculiar richness which characterises the im- 

 ported specimens." We think, however, if this 

 excellent fruit, along with many other of these 

 American varieties, were planted against south- 

 ern walls, that they would succeed. Since the 

 adoption of hollow walls heated by hot water, 

 and the more recent improvement of glass walls, 

 we see no reason why such apples as this and 

 the Newtown pippin should not be so accom- 

 modated. It would be more profitable than 

 planting peaches, plums, &c, in them. Mr Hogg, 

 in describing the Flushing Spitzenberg, which is 

 an American apple of little value, says, " In the 

 Horticultural Society Catalogue this latter is 

 made synonymous with the Esopus Spitzenberg, 

 but it is quite a different variety." 



Essex pippin. — Colour yellow; form round; 

 size under medium ; quality good. In use from 

 October till February. Allied to the golden 

 pippin, but much hardier. 



Farleigh pippin. • — Colour yellowish green ; 

 form oblong-ovate ; size medium ; quality good. 

 In use from January till May ; much esteemed 

 on account of its long keeping. Tree hardy 

 and a fair bearer. 



Fearn's pippin. — Colour reddish ; form oblate ; 

 size medium ; quality, both for dessert and culin- 



