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for they are often, inclined, like young pear trees on 

 the quince stock, to bear too many fruit when in a 

 very young state ; the constitution of the tree then 

 receives a shock which it will take two or three sea- 

 sons to recover. For varieties with large fruit, one 

 on each fruit-bearing spur will be enough ; if a small 

 sort, from two to three will be sufficient. 



There are so many really good apples that it is dif- 

 ficult to make a selection : the following sorts will not 

 disappoint the planter ; but fifty varieties in addition, 

 quite equal in quality, could be selected. 



Twenty dessert apples, ripening from July to June, 

 placed in the order of their ripening :- 



1. White Joanneting* 



2. Early Red Margaret 



3. Red Astrachan 



4. Early Strawberry 



5. Irish Peach* 



6. Summer Golden Pippin 



7. Kerry Pippin* 



8. MargU 



9. Eibston Pippin* 



10. Cox's Orange Pippin* 



Twenty kitchen apples, fit 

 June : — 



1. Keswick Codlin* 



2. Large Yellow Bough 



3. Hawthornden* 



4. Cellini 



5. King of the Pippins 

 C. Blenheim Pippin* 



7. Calville Blanche 



8. New Hawthornden 



9. Striped Beefing* 



10. Waltham Abbey Seedling 



11. Mannington's Pearmain 



12. Golden Drop (Coe's)* 



13. Ashmead's Kernel* 



14. Nonpareil, Old 



15. Reinette Van Mona* 



16. Syke House Russet 



17. Keddleston Pippin 

 IS. Golden Harvey 



19. Winter Peach Apple 



20. Sturmer Pippin* 



for use from July to 



11. Herefordshire Pearmain* 



12. Winter Pearmain 



13. Bedfordshire Foundling* 



14. Greaves's Pippin 



15. Dumelow's Seedling* 



16. Forge Apple 



17. Rymer 



IS. Baxter's Pearmain* 



19. St. Sauveur* 



20. Gooseberry Apple* 



APPLES AS BUSHES ON THE PARADISE STOCK. 



There are some varieties of apples that do not form, 

 even with care, well-shaped pyramids ; such sorts may 

 be cultivated as bushes when grafted on the Paradise 



