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sea. Soil, a light sandy loam. Tlie varieties I have named I 

 consider the best dessert and culinary kinds for this neighbour- 

 hood. Bitter Sweet, so called from having the rind slightly 

 bitter, is a good eating Apple ; and Eoyal Shepherd is one of the 

 best late kitchen I have or Imow. 



8. — Mr. W. P. Roberts, The Gardens, Cuerden Hall, Preston, 



Observations. — Fruit small and deficient in colour. 



Exhihitofs Remarks. — Our trees are all Bush or Dwarf 

 Standard, and are mostly old. Situation, well sheltered. Soil, 

 a sandy and rather wet clay, which is aggravated by the absence 

 of surface drains for the walks, the water percolating into the 

 ground where not wanted. The soil round our Apple trees had 

 been dug one spade in depth and no more, and cropped up to 

 their stems until three years ago ; since then, the ground has 

 been trenched 2 feet deep, or dug, as required, to within 5 or 6 

 feet of their stems, and the other part simply hoed. I believe 

 that the trees have benefited by this. Trenching allows the 

 water to pass through more freely, and conducts it so much 

 further away from the surface. 



Varieties of Apples suitable for Cultivation in 

 Lancashire. 



Selected (1883) by 



Mr. J. Hathaway, Lathom House, Ormskirk, 

 ,, E. Maeies, Nurseryman, Lytham. 



Dessert Apples. 



Name 



King of the Pippins 

 Early Margaret . . 

 Alms House Pippin 

 Bitter Sweet . . . 

 Blenheim Orange . 

 Claygate Pearmain. 

 Court of Wick . . 

 Court Pendu Plat . 

 Cox's Orange Pippin 

 Golden Drop . . 

 Irish Peach . . . 



No. of 



Votes 



Name 



Juneating . 

 Lady Derby 

 Lemon Pippin 

 Lord Lennox 

 Manks' Codhn 

 Mannington'sPearmain 

 Kibston Pippin . . 

 Sturmer Pippin . . 

 Winter Calville . . 

 Yellow Liofestrie . . 



No. of 

 Votes 



