SOUTHERN COUNTIES : BERKSHIRE. 



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BERKSHIRE. 



Exhibitors, 



1. — Mr. W. S. Campbell, Cowarth Park, Sunningdale, Ascot. 



Exhibitor's Bemarks. — Grown on Standards and Espaliers, 

 grafted chiefly on the Paradise. Situation sheltered. Soil, a light 

 sandy loam ; subsoil, sand and gravel. 



2. — Mr. T. Jones, Boyal Gardens, Frogmore. 



Exhibitor's Bemarks. — The specimens not quite so large as 

 usual, owing to the greater number of the trees having been 

 lifted last winter. The majority of the trees were planted by the 

 late Mr. Ingram, so they are now getting old. 



3. — Mr. S. Mortimer, Purley Park, Beading. 



Exhibitor's Bemarks. — Some of the trees are very old 

 Standards, which bear abundantly, but we get our choicest fruit 

 from bushes that have been planted about eight years. Some of 

 them are grafted on the Paradise, some on the Crab. Situation, 

 in a valley entirely surrounded with tall trees. Soil, a light 

 shallow loam, on a gravelly subsoil. A good many of the better 

 kinds canker badly, for example. Lord Suffield. Cellini bears 

 well, but the fruit is always very small ; but no Apples grow 

 very fine on this thin soil. 



4. — Mr. C. Eoss, Gardener to Charles Eyre, Esq., Welford 

 Park, Newbury. 



Observations. — A remarkably fine, well grown lot, .specimens 

 of good size, very clear skinned. 



Exhibitor's Bemarks. — Three-fourths of the trees are grown 

 in Bush form, the average age being about 12 years. The other 

 part consists of Standards of about 21 years standing. Keswick 

 Codlins, Northern Greening, and a few others are 60 years old. 

 The Bush trees are on Paradise, the Standards on Crab. Situation 

 is exposed to the north-east, with no shelter except a very few 

 trees. Soil, old garden over 200 years in cultivation ; subsoil 

 gravelly. The sorts named are those which are most to be de- 

 pended on for a crop, within a radius of 7 miles from here. Some 

 of them do not always bear in this garden, for many sorts 



