SCOTLAND — south: MIDLOTHIAN, ROXBURGH. 



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good management and high cultivation, they usually produce 

 good crops of fine fruit, although when neglected and starved they 

 quickly get barren and worthless. In all well-managed gardens 

 and orchards a regular system of annual pruning is followed, and 

 with all Wall, Bush, and Pyramid trees in gardens summer pinching 

 of the young shoots is generally practised, although it is not 

 always done at the proper time and in the systematic manner 

 which is necessary to produce the best results. Mulching of the 

 roots of Dwarf trees on the Paradise stock is highly beneficial, 

 and the application of liquid manure at proper times helps much 

 to produce the finest fruit. Cordons are grown on a limited scale, 

 and are useful in small gardens where variety and a few fine 

 fruit are the chief objects. Protection of the blossom of Apples in 

 spring from late frosts is seldom practised, but with Wall trees 

 and low Bush trees on the Paradise stock it is an advantage in 

 cold springs. For market, the largest varieties of Apples, such 

 as Ecklinville, Lord Suffield, and Warner's King, find a ready 

 sale at remunerative prices, and such varieties are now taking 

 the place of many of the old, small favourites. 



6.~J. G. C. Hamilton, Esq., M.P., Dalzell, Mothenuell, 

 Clydesdale. Mr. W. King, Gardener. 



Observations. — A very interesting contribution of the Apples 

 of Clydesdale, many of the varieties being unlmown to the 

 Committee. Examples small in comparison with those grown 

 in the south, very green, deficient in colour, and more acid in 

 flavour. 



Exhibitgr's Bemarks. — Grown principally on old Standard 

 trees, planted 1823. Situation, south aspect, well sheltered. 

 Soil, clay ; subsoil, stiff clay. 



8. — Messrs. Oemiston & Eenwick, The Tub Nurseries, Melrose. 



Observations. — An extremely interesting and representative 

 collection of Tweedside Apples ; a printed catalogue of the whole 

 being on distribution, indicating the sorts, kind of stock, form, 

 age, &c., of trees from which gathered, with particulars as to the 

 situation of gardens, soil, &c. 



Exhibitors' Bemarks. — With very few exceptions the trees are 

 grown in the kitchen gardens, around or across the breaks used 

 for ordinary cropping. All the Culinary sorts mentioned in the 

 list are successfully grown along Tweedside on both Standards 

 and Pyramids. The dessert sorts should be grown on walls with 

 good exposure. On Standards and Pyramids they are generally 

 very small. 



