THE COMMERCIAL ASPECT OF HARDY FRUIT GROWING. 321 
is a question whether Lane's Frince Albert will not be the most 
remunerative to plant for the future, at least on soils where it is 
known to succeed, as it can be sold at once from the tree if 
prices are high, or it can be kept six or eight months if 
necessary, and sold at any time when there are short supplies 
and full prices. We have sold it direct from the trees at £22 per 
ton, and never at less than £16 per ton. 
Golden Spire is a continuous cropper, never failing unless 
the climatic conditions are exceptionally bad. The fruit is of 
large size, handsome, and of a bright golden colour. On the 
average of the past ten years it has realised £15 per ton. 
Worcester Pearmain is another excellent market Apple, as it 
is remarkably prolific ; and though the fruit is not very large, 
yet on account of its brilliant colour it always sells freely at 
from £14 to £26 per ton. It should be noted that trees of 
Worcester Pearmain will bear the same weight of fruit as equals 
sized trees of the three previously mentioned varieties, which 
accounts for its being fourth on the list. 
Warner's King takes fifth place, being a good bearer with 
very large fruit, selling at £16 per ton. 
The following varieties all come about equal on our light 
soil, the difference between their returns being so small as hardly 
to warrant, from a commercial point of view, giving more distinc- 
tion to one than to another : Cox's Pomona, Cox's Orange Pippin, 
King of the Pippins, Lord Suffield, Potts' Seedling, Yorkshire 
Beauty, Stirling Castle, Toiver of Glamis, Maltster, and Dume- 
loiu's Seedling (also known as Wellington and Normanton 
Wonder). 
All of the above varieties have proved very profitable as bush 
trees, and, with the exception oi Lane's Prince Albert and Stirling 
Castle, will also answer planted as standards. Lane's Prince 
Albert assumes a more or less weeping habit when grown as 
a standard, the weight of the fruit pulling the branches down so 
much that it is difficult to get any fair-sized heads to the trees ; 
and Stirliiig Castle grows too weakly to make a really fine 
standard tree. 
Naturally the question will be asked, how much fruit a bush 
tree will carry without unduly distressing itself ? The answer 
must depend upon the soil, situation, and cultural skill brought 
to bear upon it. We have gathered an average of more than 
