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are of straggling habit, but they bear enorraous crops of fruit every 
year, which frequently break the trees to pieces. Pear trees appear 
to do well here ; the trunk of one I measured was six feet in circum- 
ference four feet from the ground, and of ' Catillac ' I found some very 
large specimen trees. 
I have already referred to a local variety of Apple known as the 
' Cissy," and in a few places as the ' Tampling.' It may be interesting 
to record that it was raised by a cottager named Tampling, who resided in 
the village of Malpas, near Newport, about a hundred years ago. During 
his lifetime he distributed grafts amongst his friends in different 
parts of the county, and after his death a sister named Cissy occupied 
the cottage, and the wwk of distribution continued until her death, 
and thus it obtained the name of ' Cissy's Apple,' by which it is known 
to this day. Some few years ago specimens of this x\pple were exhibited 
at some of the large fruit shows, when it was given the name of ' Mon- 
mouthshire Beauty,' a name to which our people have not taken kindly. 
I am indebted for this information to Thomas Eboral Cooke, Esq., of 
Newport, whose father knew Mr. Tampling personally. (Fig. 116.) 
After leaving Cwmcarvan we pass through Dingestow and Mitcheltroy ; 
the orchards here are well cared for, ' Blenheims ' and ' King of Pippins ' (or, 
as it is known locally, ' Orange Pearmain ') are grown in large quantities. 
Some of the farmers here have a much better system of gathering and 
marketing their fruit, the result being that much better prices are 
obtained. On the banks of the Trothy, and within a short distance of 
Troy House, I visited an orchard situated in a well-sheltered hollow : the 
soil was of a deep rich loam. To a question which I put to the aged 
farmer, a very intelligent man, as to some of the trees I saw, he replied that 
they could not be less than two hundred years old, for when he first 
knew them they were quite as large as they are now. Some of the trunks of 
the Pear trees were at least eight feet in circumference. I need hardly 
add that they were very common varieties, and that little care was taken 
in gathering the fruit, most of it being shaken from the trees, with the 
result that it was much bruised, and only realised a very low price in the 
market. 
I will now refer to a very interesting experiment which has been made 
near by, and which should be an object-lesson to the inhabitants in this 
district. Three years ago about half an acre of ground was planted with 
the better varieties of culinary and dessert Apples and a few Pears ; the 
trees were nearly all on dwarfing stocks, the ground between being 
cultivated and regularly cropped with vegetables. Lime and stable 
manure is used, and this year at least 75 per cent, of the trees bore heavy 
crops of fruit, one dish of ' Newton Wonder ' taking the champion prize in 
the Monmouth Fruit Show. 
I afterwards visited the Trelleck, Llanishen, and Llansoy districts. 
At the two latter places fruit-growing is considered one of the best and 
most profitable investments on the farm. Several of the orchards have 
been recently renovated, and the young trees are well protected and 
manured. Here I found a large number of ' Broad Eye ' Pippins, or what 
is known locally as the * Kentish Pippin ' ; ' Blenheims ' and ' Kings ' are also 
grown in quantity. In one of the orchards in this place I was somewhat 
