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tlie labour of tlie gardener^ and tlie abundant crops might 

 often save bim from tbe grumblings that are sometimes 

 known to accompany large garden expenditure and a 

 scarcity of vegetables and fruits. 



Having said so mucb in favour of good orchard 

 culture it behoves me to give the names of the kinds 

 of hardy fruit that do best as standard orchard trees : — 

 Pears : J ersey Gratioli^ Doyenne du Comice, Citron des 

 Carmesj Jargonelle, Williams''s Bon Chretien, Aston 

 Town, Beurre de Capiaumont, Louise Bonne of Jersey, 

 Suffolk Thorn, Thompson's Pear, Beurre d'Amanlis, Swan''s 

 Egg, Croft Castle, Doyenne d'Ete, Comte de Lamy, 

 Knight's Monarch, Althorpe Crassane, Marie Louise, and 

 Beurre Superfin. Apples : Borovitsky, Early Harvest, Irish 

 Peach, Joanneting, Summer Golden Pippin, Lord Suffield, 

 Keswick Codlin, Adams's Pearmain, Blenheim Pippin, Cox's 

 Orange Pippin, Early Nonpareil, Golden Pippin, Ribston 

 Pippin, Sykehouse Busset, Bedfordshire Foundling, Haw- 

 thornden, Yorkshire Greening, Golden Noble, Court Pendu 

 Plat, Golden Harvey, Sam Young, Sturmer Pippin, Beauty 

 of Kent, Dumelow's Seedling, Boyal Pearmain, Tower 

 of Glammis, and Pitmaston Nonpareil. Plums : Pond's 

 Seedling, Early Rivers, Orleans, Gisborne's, Victoria, Prince 

 Englebert, and Damson. Cherries : May Duke, Early 

 Prolific, Bigarreau, Late Duke, Knight's Early Black, Belle 

 Agathe, Rival, and Mammoth. Apricots (for standard trees 

 in the southern counties) : Breda, Brussels, Turkey, and 

 Moorpark. Figs : Black Tschia, Brown Ischia, Brown 

 Turkey, and Courcourcelle Blanche. These would be better 

 grown as shrubs, with low sweeping branches, and buried in 

 the ground in winter to save them from the frosts, as the 

 Erench do about ArgenteuH. Medlars : The Nottingham is 

 the best kind. Nuts : Lambert's Filbert (Kentish cob) is 

 the best ; Purple Filbert, Pearson's Prolific, and Cosford 

 also good. Of the Quinces the Portugal is the best. The 

 Berberry is rarely cultivated, though worth that trouble. 

 Where the fruit is much in request, it would be a good 

 plan to inclose the orchard with a dense hedge of this shrub. 

 The stoneless variety is the best, but it is not easy to get the 



