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space should be devoted to this most useful fruit, but for such a 

 garden and family as I am contemplating a line of 100 or 120 

 yards in length will not be too much, and this should, of course, 

 for facility of netting from the birds, be broken up into 

 several shorter lines 6 feet apart. It is a great saving of space 

 to plant Easpberries in lines (not in clumps) ; it makes them 

 easier both to support and gather. The best method of support 

 is to strain two or three stout wires from end to end of each 

 row and tie the canes up to them. Many people are hardly 

 aware of how many varieties of Easpberries there are, but Bed 

 Antwerp is still the best for flavour, though, considering the size 

 and prolific bearing of Superlative, it is, I think, to be preferred, 

 and in flavour it is not far behind Bed Antwerp. It might be 

 well to grow half of each, and use Superlative for cooking, and 

 for dessert when Bed Antwerp is over. Other good kinds are 

 Carter's Prolific, and Norwich Wonder a very favourite Easpberry 

 in Kent. The white or yellow Easpberries I do not recommend 

 at all ; nor the white Strawberries. 



6. Bed Currants. — A very few of these will suffice if plenty 

 of the better fruits are grown. About twelve bushes would be 

 enough, and I would advise half being of Bed Dutch and half of 

 Baby Castle. Of White Currants, as of White Easpberries, to 

 plant them seems to me to waste good ground where better 

 things might be grown, but if they are required White Trans- 

 parent and Versailles are the best. 



7. Apples for Dessert. — Five of these should, if possible, be 

 planted, and mostly in bush form. The first early Apple should 

 be Irish Peach or Devonshire Quarrenden, both ripening in 

 August. The next, for September and early October, should be 

 either Lady Sudeley, Gravenstein, or Worcester Pearmain. Then 

 should come three trees of Cox's Orange, the prince of all Dessert 

 Apples,* and one that keeps fairly well. People often talk of the 

 fineness of the American Apple called Newtown Pippin, but the 

 best American Newtown Pippin ever grown is not to be compared 

 with a good British Cox's Orange. In my opinion it is hardly 

 worth while in a small garden to grow later Dessert Apples than 

 Cox's Orange, which will often keep till Christmas, according to 



* A very promising new Apple has made its appearance since the above 

 was written, called South Lincoln Beauty. The specimens shown at the 

 Society's meeting on November 13, 1894, were of the highest excellence, 

 and I would advise all who can get it to try it. 



