WESTERN COUNTIES : DORSETSHIRE. 



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DORSETSHIRE. 



Exhibitors, 



1. — Mr. John Powell, Gardener to W. E. Brymer, Esq.y 

 Ilsington House, Dorchester, 



Selection of Twenty-four Varieties most suited for 

 Culture in the District, Named in Ord^ir of Succession. 



Cox's Pomona, Emperor Alexander, Mother Apple, Cellini, 

 Royal Pearmain, King of the Pippins, Ribston Pippin, Gloria 

 Mundi, Warner's King, Blenheim Orange, New Hawthornden, 

 M^re de Menage, Peasgood's Nonesuch, Ecklinville Pippin, Beauty 

 of Kent, Lady Henniker, Tower of Glamis, Bedfordshire Found- 

 ling, Prince Albert, Green Pippin, Hoary Morning, Betty Geeson^ 

 Striped Beefing, Dumelow's Seedling. 



Selection of Twelve Varieties most suited for Culture, 

 in the District, Named in Order of Succession. 



Mother Apple, King of the Pippins, Cox's Orange Pippin, 

 Ribston Pippin, Cornish Aromatic, Old Nonpareil, Blenheim 

 Orange, Bristol Apple, Duke of Devonshire, Melon Apple, Clay- 

 gate Pearmain, Royal Russet. 



Exhibitor s Remarks. — Situation, in walled-in garden, very- 

 low and damp. Soil, very light and chalky ; subsoil, chalk. 



General Bemarks. — Grown as Espaliers, Bushes, and Cordons, 

 on the Paradise stock. Pinched twice in summer. The greater 

 part of our Apple trees are planted in heavier soil than the natural 

 garden, as the trees soon turn yellow, and are subject to canker 

 in the ordinary soil. 



2. — Mr. Wm. Gallop, Gardener to H. N. Middleton, Esq., 

 Bi-adford Peverill, Dorchester. 



Selection op Twenty-four Varieties most suited for 

 Culture in the District, Named in Order of Succession. 



Oslin, Cellini, Emperor Alexander, Golden Spire, Maltster,, 

 King of the Pippins, Golden Winter Pearmain, Forge, Hawthorn- 

 den, Cobham, Cockle's Pippin, Lemon Pippin, Syke House Russet, 

 Golden Pippin, Alfriston, Winter Peach, Boston Russet, Rose- 

 mary Russet, Duke of Devonshire, Northern Spy, Forfar Pippin,. 

 Braddick's Nonpareil, Golden Harvey, Sturmer Pippin. 



