WESTERN COUNTIES : MONMOUTHSHIHE. 



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MONMOUTHSHIRE. 



Exhibitors. 



1. — Mr. Thomas Coomber, The Hendre Gardens, Monmouth. 



Selection of Twenty-foue Varieties most suited for 

 Culture in the District, Named in Order of Succession. 



Irish Peach, Eed Astrachan, Lady Sudeley, Lord Suffield, 

 Keswick Codhn, Golden Noble, Stirling Castle, Hawthornden, 

 Cellini, Cox's Pomona, Warner's King, Ecklinville Seedling, 

 Emperor Alexander, Mere de Menage, Blenheim Pippin, Cox's 

 Orange Pippin, King of the Pippins, Dumelow's Seedling, Man- 

 nington's Pearmain, Northern Greening, Eeinette de Canada, 

 Court Pendu Plat, Scarlet Nonpareil, Stm^mer Pippin. 



Selection of Twelve Varieties most suited for Culture 

 in the District, Named in Order of Succession. 



Irish Peach, Lord Suffield, Stirling Castle, Hawthornden, 

 Cellini, Warner's King, Mere de Menage, Blenheim Pippin, 

 Cox's Orange Pippin, King of Pijopins, Court Pendu Plat, Stur- 

 mer Pippin. 



Selection of Ten Varieties suited for Market Culture. 



Irish Peach, Lord Suffield, Hawthornden, Cellini, Warner's 

 King, Blenheim Pippin, King of the Pippins, Cox's Orange 

 Pippin, Golden Noble, Mere de Menage. 



Exhibitor's Bemarks. — There are but few Apples grown for 

 market in this district. Situation moderately sheltered. Soil, 

 cold clayey loam ; subsoil, marl. 



General Bemarks. — The Apples exhibited were mostly grown 

 upon Standard trees 20 and more years old, in an orchard which is 

 moderately sheltered from the north and west, otherwise exposed. 

 Very little manure is afforded other than that derived from sheep 

 or calves when grazing the grass. The stock employed is the 

 ordinary Crab, upon which growth is freely made. In pruning, 

 all dead wood is removed, and superfluous growths are cut away. 

 In this neighbourhood much cider fruit is cultivated, whilst 

 dessert varieties are neglected. The trees in many orchards 

 are old, and young ones are not planted to the extent they ought 

 to be. 



2.— Mr. W. Jenkins, The Willows, Abergavenny. 



Observations. — Eemarkable for the high colouring of all the 

 specimens. 



Exhibitor' s Bemarks. — Fruit gathered from trees of various 

 ages, some of them 70 years old, and grafted on the Crab ; sonie 



