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JOrRXAL or THE EOYAL HORJICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Selection of Twenty-foue Dessert Vaeieties most suited 

 FOR Culture in the District, Named in Order op 

 Succession. 



Eed Juneating, Eed Astraclian, Devonsliire Qnarrenden, 

 Irish Peacli, Summer Orange, Duchess of Oldenburg, Garrett's 

 Pippin or Borsdorffer, Kerry Pippin, King of the Pippins, Cox's 

 Orange Pippin, Fearn's Pippin, Scarlet Pearmain, Wyken 

 Pippin, Scarlet Nonpareil, Eibston Pippin, Cockle's Pippin, 

 Cornish Gilliflower, Old Nonpareil, Court Pendu Plat, D'Arcy 

 Spice, Duke of Devonshire, Lemon Pippin, Bess Pool, Stm^mer 

 Pippin. 



Selection op Twelve Kitchen Varieties most suited for 

 Culture in the District, Named in Order of Succession. 



Keswick Codlin, Hawthornden, Lord Suffield, Stirling Castle, 

 Lord Grosvenor, Warner's King, The Queen, Winter Hawthorn- 

 den, Ecklinville Seedling, Waltham Abbey Seedling, Blenheim 

 Orange, Wellington. 



Selection op Ten Varieties suited for Market Culture. 



Devonshire Quarrenden, Keswick Codlin, Garrett's Pipx^in, 

 Stirling Castle, Lord Suffield, King of the Pippins, The Queen, 

 Blenheim Orange, Cox's Orange Pippin, AVellington. 



2. — Mr. W. 0. Ward, Marhet Gardener, Bamsey, Harwich, 



Essex. 



Observations. — Examples small. 



Exliihitofs Bemarks. — Fruit grown on various forms of trees, 

 many of them planted 40 years ago, others 25 years, and some 

 about 4 years. They are mostly on the Apple stock. Situation, 

 open, in the most eastern part of Essex, and nearly the most 

 eastern part of England. Soil, a good loam ; subsoil, London 

 clay. My experience as a market gardener is this : that if I were 

 to plant again, I would grow but few sorts, that I know to be 

 the best and most productive, and I would prune but very little, 

 only thinning out the branches. 



3. — Mr. Robert Warner, Broomfield, Chelmsford, 

 Observations. — Examples small. 



Exhihitofs Bemarks. — The greater portion of the fi'uit is 

 grown on young Standard and P3Tamid trees, grafted on the 

 common Apple stock. Situation, open. Soil, a poor friable 

 loam, sticky when wet ; subsoil, water-clay, i.e. a clay im- 

 pervious to the passage of water. The soil is in general rather 

 poor. Trees are in very good health on the whole. Warner's 

 Seedling takes the first place for good cooking, keeping much 

 longer than Warner's King, to which the habit of growth is very 

 similar. 



