660 JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



BEST HARDY FRUITS FOR CENTRAL SCOTLAND. 

 By William Wright, Perthshire. 



[Read October 15, 1901.] 



Fruit culture in the central districts of Scotland is an important and 

 increasing industry. At present there are probably several hundred acres 

 under Apples, Bush Fruits, and Strawberries, and good paying crops are 

 generally the result. As a rule the soil and climate are well suited for 

 the purpose, and though very liable to cold and frosty nights in late 

 spring, when the trees are in flower, if these pass off without damaging 

 the blossom there is nothing more to be dreaded. 



Generally speaking, fruit culture is carried out on up-to-date prin- 

 ciples, and though there are many old orchards and obsolete varieties of 

 Apples which only produce inferior crops, these are generally disposed of 

 to the jam manufactories, and even so they pay tolerably well in ordinary 

 seasons. 



Apples, being perhaps the most important crop, may be taken first. 

 These are grown as cordons on walls, and edging to walks, bush, pjTamid 

 and half standards in gardens, and standards for orchards. 



Dessert Varieties. — Among the most suitable are ' Irish Peach,' 

 which does well ; ' Beauty of Bath,' very free and good ; ' Lady Sudeley,' 

 good, and colours well ; ' Red Astrachan,' very useful ; ' Thorle Pippin,' 

 a good old variety ; ' Kerry Pippin ' is apt to canker on some soils ; 

 ' Worcester Pearmain,' one of the best croppers ; * King of the Pippins,' 

 the most useful winter variety; 'James Grieve,' a good cropper and 

 grower, and takes the place of ' Ribston Pippin,' which does poorly, and 

 requires a wall here ; ' Cox's Orange ' does not crop well unless root- 

 pruned occasionally. Others that do well and are generally grown are 



* Oslin Pippin,' ' Adams' Pearmain,' ' Fearn's Pippin,' ' Paradise Pippin ' 

 (useful when others are scarce), * Devonshire Quarrenden,' ' Sturmer 

 Pippin ' (requires a wall here), ' Blenheim Orange ' (makes an excellent 

 tree, and bears well as a standard). 



Kitchen Varieties. — * Bramley's Seedling,' good and free, but rather 

 long in coming into bearing condition ; ' Duchess of Oldenburg,' free and 

 good ; ' Lord Suffield,' cankers in light gravelly soils, and where this happens 

 ' Lord Grosvenor ' is better ; ' Stirling Castle,' a hea\'y cropper and good; 



* Warner's King,' best on standard trees, and keeps well; ' Keswick Codlin,' 

 a sure cropper; 'Pott's Seedling,' reliable and good; 'Cellini,' apt to 

 canker sometimes ; ' Ecklinville,' a grand cropper ; ' Golden Spire,' good ; 

 ' Northern Greening,' very reliable and good ; ' Ringer,' excellent ; 

 ' Hawthornden,' a very old favourite. Other good ones are ' Alfriston ' ; 

 'Dumelow^'s Seedling,' liable to canker; 'Lane's Prince Albert,' very 

 good ; ' Yorkshire Beauty,' useful and a free doer ; ' Tower of Glamis ' ; 

 ' The Queen,' and ' Golden Noble.' 



