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Older trees which do not fruit properly are lifted, root pruned, 

 and replanted in the same manner, generally with the best 

 results. Bush and Standard trees only are grown, the former 

 are worked on Paradise and the latter on Crab stock. 



3. — Mr. J. Dean, Gardener to Granville W. Leveson Goiver, 

 Titsey Place, Godstone. 



Observations. — FiXSim^les small, but well coloured. 



Exhibitor's Bernards. — The old orchard trees show great 

 exhaustion, having made scarcely any young growth for years. 

 The others in kitchen garden are all Bushes, trained open or 

 cup-shaped. They are mostly on the Crab, a few being on 

 Paradise, but on this stock the Ribston Pippin cankers very 

 much. Situation, well sheltered and facing south, 400 feet 

 above sea-level. Soil prepared, consisting of road scrapings with 

 loam, being mulched annually with stable manure. A great 

 many varieties of Apples canker very badly here, whether the 

 season be wet or dry ; and every spring we have to cut out 

 cankered wood. It seems hopeless to try to obtain a good- 

 shaped tree in the prepared soil ; but on the real chalk, which 

 is very dry, we have two specimen trees, a Ribston Pippin and a 

 Blenheim Orange planted 50 years, growing vigorously, without 

 a spot of canker, but they give no fruit. Why is this ? 



4. — Mr. B. Geeaves, The Gardens, Broome Hall, Surrey. 

 Observations. — Examples small. 



Exhibitor's Bemarks. — Grown on Orchard Standards, many 

 of stunted growth. The trees are old. Situation, sheltered. 

 Soil, a heavy loam ; subsoil, a stiff clay. The trees are much 

 covered by lichen caused by the undrained soil. The Apples 

 here are only of moderate quality, caused, no doubt, by want of 

 better draining and cultivation. The blossoms often suffer from 

 spring frosts, and the leaves from myriads of caterpillars. All 

 Apples grown here are Orchard Standards, and receive very little 

 attention. A new orchard is being prepared, which will be 

 drained and trenched. 



5.— Mr. T. B. Haywood, Woodhatch Lodge, Beigate. Gardener, 

 Mr. J. RiDOUT. 



Observatiojis. — Fruit of fair average quality. 



Exhibitor's Bemarks. — Grown on Standard and Pyramid 

 trees, the Standards being old trees, and the Pyramids about 12 

 years of age ; about equal portions on the Crab and Paradise. 

 Situation, fairly sheltered. Soil, sandy ; subsoil, sand with 

 ironstone gravel. The Ribston Pippin, Cellini, Old Hawthornden, 

 and a few others on the Paradise are in this neighbourhood 

 much subject to canker every year. . 



