HARDY FRUITS IN YORKSHIRE. 



591 



shows are still held annually in several places, at which enormous berries 

 are shown. In many portions of that tract of country lying between 

 Leeds, Selby, York, Boroughbridge, and Harrogate, where again there is a 

 great difference in the character of the soils, quantities of hardy fruit are 

 grown in places. To the east, a few miles from Leeds, Raspberry-growing 

 is rather an important industry, upwards of 100 acres being under culti- 

 vation. About South Milford some rather large orchards are seen. Near 

 here quantities of the celebrated Yorkshire ' Winesour ' Plum are still 

 largely grown. Ribston Park is the home of the noted ' Ribston Pippin ' 

 Apple, which still holds its own as one of the best-flavoured Apples 

 grown. The old original tree has passed away ; a portion of its trunk is 

 still preserved, and shown to visitors to the gardens. A sucker from the 

 roots of the original stock is rapidly growing into a large tree, which is 

 fenced round and carefully protected. Whixley, a small hamlet near 

 Cattal, on the York and Harrogate line, is noted for its Cherries ; the people 

 call it the ' Whixley Cherry,' and say it has no other name. An old 

 Cherry-picker told me it w r as the ' Whixley Cherry,' and nothing else ; it 

 had been called by that name ever since the world was created, and he 

 could tell by its flavour whether a Cherry had been grown at Whixley 

 or not. A Cherry fair is held annually, which, although not so important 

 an event as formerly, is still looked forward to every year by the inhabit- 

 ants and visitors. 



(3) I now take some extracts from the " General Report" of the 

 Yorkshire Hardy Fruits. Apples and Strawberries are arranged in tables, 

 giving — satisfactory and unsatisfactory results, the different characters of 

 soils, and the number of centres where each is grown. These show 

 clearly how misleading special lists for planting are : — 



Kitchen Apples. 20 Varieties. 



Names of Varieties 



■ 



No. of places where 

 each variety is grown 





Satisfactory 





Unsatisfactory 



General Character of Soils 



General Character of Soils 



Heavy 



Medium 



Light 



Total 



Heavy 



Medium 



60 



Total 



Blenheim Orange Pippin 



41 



9 



7 



7 



23 



11 



3 



4 



18 

 4 



Bramley's Seedling 



25 



9 



7 



5 



21 



2 



2 





Cellini Pippin 



25 



9 



7 



5 



21 



1 



1 



2 



4 



Cockpit . . . . 



8 



7 



4 



4 



15 



1 



1 



1 



3 



Cockpit improved 



16 



4 



8 



4 



16 











Cox's Pomona 



22 



7 



10 



3 



20 





1 



1 



2 



Dumelow's Seedling 



17 



2 



5 



5 



12 



2 



2 



1 



5 



Ecklinville Seedling 



47 



19 



14 



9 



42 



1 



2 



2 



5 



Hawthornden 



25 



5 



7 



9 



21 



2 





2 



4 



Hawthornden, New 



10 



2 



6 



1 



9 





1 





1 



Lane's Prince Albert 



29 



9 



15 



5 



29 











Lord Derby .... 



18 



3 





3 



16 



2 







2 



Lord Grosvenor 



20 



5 



■? 



4 



16 



3 



1 





4 



Lord Suffield .... 



60 



15 



10 



16 



41 



6 



8 



7 



19 



Keswick Codlin 



47 



14 



14 



14 



42 



4 



1 





5 



Peasgood's Nonesuch 



41 



14 



19 



5 



38 





2 



i 



3 



Stirling Castle 



28 



8 



12 



6 



26 





1 



i 



2 



Tower of Glamis . 



23 



8 





4 



21 



1 



1 





2 



Warner's King 



43 



14 



A 



10 



36 



3 



3 



i 



7 



Yorkshire Greening 



15 



| 



3 



\ 6 



5 



14 







i 



1 



