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JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



few years of fertility will only be the precursor of decay and 

 disappointment. 



Having settled on suitable land, the tenant or purchaser next 

 proceeds to put the land in order for planting, either by steam 

 cultivation or by thorough digging or trenching — the latter, 

 though expensive at the start, is of permanent benefit. This 

 operation is best done before the frosts set in, that the land may 

 be purified and sweetened by exposure. The ground should then 

 be set out, and standard trees, on the crab or free stock, of the 

 following sorts, planted 24 ft. apart, requiring 75 to an acre. 



Apples foe Standard on Waem Loamy Soils.* 



1. Dessert Apples ; to pick and sell from the tree : 



August. Septemher. 



Devonshire Quarrenden. Lady Sudeley. 



Sugar-loaf Pippin. Yellow Ingestrie. 



2. To store ; October to Christmas : 



King of the Pippins. Cox's Orange. 



Mabbot's Pearmain. Blenheim Orange, 



3. Kitchen Apples ; to sell from the tree ; August and September 'i 



Early Julien. Counsellor. 

 Keswick Codlin. Grenadier (true). 



Lord Suffield. Ecklinville. 

 Duchess of Oldenburg. 



4. To store ; October to December : 



Warner's King. Golden Noble. 



Schoolmaster. Tower of Glamis. 



Lord Derby. Waltham Abbey. 



5. To keep from January to May : 



Wellington. Lady Henniker. 



AVinter Queening. Bramley's Seedling. 



Norfolk Beaufin. Annie Elizabeth. 



If the soil is cold, but rich, omit Lord Sufiield and add 

 Lord Grosvenor, and omit Cox's Orange and King of Pippins. 



So far for the top crop, the space between being utilised by 

 placing three two or three year old dwarf trees between each 

 standard, others at six feet apart, which, less 75 for standards, 

 will be 1,135 per acre, until the plantation is filled up. These 

 dwarfs will produce the best fruit from trees on the Paradise or 

 surface rooting stock, and may consist of the following : 



Apples foe Bush or Free Pyramidal Style to be 

 GROWN ON Paradise Stocks. 



6. Dessert kinds^ to sell from the tree. 



* The list of fruits given is more extended than is advisable, but it may only be possible 

 to obtain a part of the torts given in the planters' locality ; the fewer kinds used the better 



