198 JOURNAL OF THE EOYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Culinary Apples. 



Name 



No. of 

 Votes 



Name 



No. of 



Votes 



Dumelow's Seedling . "1 

 Keswick Codlin ... J 



Barton's Free Bearer . 

 Bedfordshire Foundling 

 Blenheim Orange . . 

 Borovitsky (Duchess of 



Oldenburg) ... 1 

 Brabant Belleneur . . / 



Cellini 



Dutch Codlin . . . 

 Histon Favourite . . 

 Huntingdon Codlin 

 Lord Suffield . , . J 



2 

 1 



Minchall Crab . . 

 Murfitt's Seedling . 

 New Hawthornden . 

 Nonesuch .... 

 Normanton Wonder 



ling) 



Norfolk Beefing . . 



Eoyal Pearmain . . 



Striped Beefing . . 



Warner's King . . . 



Wellington (Dume- 

 low's Seedling) . . 



Winter Greening . . 



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1 



OXFORDSHIRE. 



Exhibitors. 



1. — Messrs. J. Jeffeeies & Co., Nurserymen, dc, Oxford. 



Exhibitors' Bemarhs. — Collected from many and widely distant 

 localities of the county, a large proportion being the production 

 of orchards which are exclusively Standards that have borne fruit 

 for many generations. These are chiefly on the Crab, but those 

 exhibited from garden collections are from Espalier or Pyramidal 

 trees of various ages, mostly on the Paradise. The soil varies 

 from a fertile tenacious loam — a decomposed stone -brash or 

 limestone, or a light sandy loam — with subsoils of clay or chalk. 



The varieties of apples most extensively grown in the 

 orchards of this county are Blenheim Orange and Hanwell 

 Souring ; of the former variety there are many trees that have 

 been obtained from kernels, and these produce fruit varying more 

 or less from what is regarded as the typical sort. There are 

 certain trees that have gained a local fame on account of their 

 producing uniformly juicy, rich, sugary-flavoured Apples, by 

 which they are distinguished from fruit of the same kind from 

 trees growing under precisely similar conditions that do not 

 partake of these qualities in a corresponding degree. The vigour 

 manifested by many of the most aged trees serves to indicate not 

 only the situations eminently suitable for forming new orchards. 



