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JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



. The Next Best Thikty Dessebt Apples. 



Arranged Alphabetically. 



American Mother. — Free bearer; fine size; first-rate quality. 

 Ashmead's Kernel. — Good bearer ; small ; late ; excellent quality. 

 Baddow Pippin.— Good, bearer; medium size; late, and first-rate. 

 Barcelona Pearmain. — Good bearer; small; excellent quality. 

 Braddick's Nonimreil. — Regular bearer ; tree hardy ; quality first-rate. 

 Camhusnetlian.—K free bearer; good size, and fine quality. 

 Cockle Pippin. — A prolific variety ; rather small ; generally first-rate. 

 Cornish Aromatic. — A good bearer, and first-rate in most seasons. 

 Cornish Gillifloiuer.—'Modevsute bearer; first-rate in good seasons. 

 Doiunton Pippin. — Prolific bearer; small, but the best of the Golden Pippin 

 type. 



Dutch Mignonne. — Very prolific ; medium size ; requires a fine season to be 

 first-rate. 



Early Harvest. — A prolific early variety, and generally of good quality. 

 Fearn's Pippin. — Good bearer, and of excellent quality. 

 Golden Harvey. — Good bearer; small, but first-rate. 

 Golden Beinetic. — Regular bearer, and a first-rate variety. 

 Gravenstein. —Good bearer ; large ; tree hardy ; fine refreshing flavour ; 

 first-rate. 



Huhhard's Pearmain. — Moderate bearer ; medium size ; fine quality. 

 Lemon Pippin. — Regular bearer ; medium size ; late ; first-rate. 

 Margil. — Good bearer, and of first-rate quality. 



Old Nonpareil. — Good bearer; small; requires a good season to be first- 

 rate. 



Paradise Pippin. — Prolific old variety ; handsome shape, and good quality. 

 Pineapple Russet. — Good bearer; large; fine flavour; first-rate. 

 Ravelston Pippin. — A prolific variety ; large, and fine autumn apple. 

 Bed Astrachan. — Good bearer; large and very handsome, good quality. 

 P^ed Margaret. — Good bearer ; medium size ; very early ; fine quality. 

 Red Winter Reinette. — Prolific bearer; very handsome; good quality. 

 Reinette de Canada. — Good bearer, and generally first-rate. 

 Rosemary Eusset. — Constant bearer ; fine size ; first-rate quality. 

 Scarlet Pearmain. — Very prolific ; smallish ; very pretty ; good quality. 

 Wyke7i Pippin. — Good bearer ; small ; of first-rate quality. 



The Best Twenty Culinary Apples. 



Arranged in the usual Order of Succession. 



'^Keswick Codlin. — A sure bearer, very hardy, and the most useful very 

 early apple. 



Duchess of Oldeyiburg. — A free-bearing and very handsome variety. 

 ■\'^Lord Suffield. — One of the best, and thrives well in most parts. 

 \ *Ecklinville. — Very hardy and prolific, and probably the best of autumn 

 culinary apples. 



Cellini. — Very prolific and useful, bears \Yell in cold districts ; tree liable 

 to canker. 



*Hawthornden. — An excellent and prolific variety ; liable to spot in cold 

 and wet places. 

 Manks' Codlin. — A useful free-bearing variety. 

 Cox's Pomona. — A fine free-bearing variety, of good quality. 

 Loddington. — Free-bearing, large, and excellent. 



The twelve best varieties are mai-ked with an asterisk, 

 t The six best varieties are marked with a dagger 



