WESTERN COUNTIES : GLOUCESTERSHIRE. 



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Selection of Twelve Varieties most suited for Culture 

 IN the District, Named in Order of Succession. 

 Irish Peach, Lord Suffield, Eckhnville SeedHng, Frogmore 

 Prohfic, Kmg of the Pippms, Cox's Orange Pippin, Dumelow's 

 SeedHng, Blenheim Orange, Bess Pool, Tower of Glamis, 

 Winter Hawthornden, Stone Apple. 



Selection of Ten Varieties suited for Market Culture. 



Lord Suffield, Keswick Codlin, King of Pippins, Cox's Orange 

 Pippin, Blenheim Orange, Warner's King, Bess Pool, Tom 

 Putt, Dumelow's Seedling, Stirling Castle. Generally speaking 

 this is not a marketing district. 



3. — Messrs. Wheeler & Sons, Nurserymen, Gloucester, 



Observations. — A very clear-skinned, well-grown collestion. 



Exhibitors' Bemarks. — Grown on Pyramid and Bush trees 

 from 3 to 5 years of age, grafted on the Paradise stock. 

 Situation, in open quarters in nursery ; soil, .light ; subsoil, 

 gravel. Trees grown in the form of Pyramids or Bushes occupy 

 but a small space in the garden, and at the same time are very 

 productive, and of an attractive appearance. They are worthy 

 of extended cultivation in this form. 



List of Varieties of Apples suitable for Cultivation in 

 Gloueestepshire. 



Selected (1888) by 



Messrs. J. Jefferies & Sons, Cirencester. 

 Mr. T. Shingles, Tortiuorth Court, Gloucester. 

 Messrs. J. C. Wheeler & Sons, Gloucester. 



Dessert Apples. 



Name 



Ashmead's Kernel . 

 Cox's Orange Pippin 

 King of the Pippins 

 Margil .... 

 Eibston Pippin . 

 Court Pendu Plat 

 Irish Peach . . 

 Kerry Pippin 

 Wyken Pippin . 

 Adams' Pearmain 

 Braddick's Nonpareil 



No. of 

 Votes 



Nam 3 



DevonshireQuarrenden 

 Duke of Devonshire 

 Fearn's Pippin 

 Lamb Abbey Pear 



main .... 

 London Pippin 

 Old Nonpareil . . 

 Scarlet Nonpareil . 

 Sturmer Pippin . 

 Wormsley Pippin . 

 Yellow Inofestrie . 



No. of 



Votes 



P 



