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SCOTLAND-NORTHERN DIVISION. 



Exhibitors. 



1. — Mr. John Claek, Gardener, Brodie Castle, Morayshire, 



Observations. — Examples small, but the contribution interest- 

 ing as containing many of the earlier Scottish Apples. 



Exhibitor's Bemarhs. — All grown on Standard trees, with 

 one exception, viz., Paradise Pippin, or Adams' Apple, which is 

 from an old Espalier. The trees are about 25 years old, and 

 mostly grafted on the Crab, with a few on the Paradise. Situa- 

 tion, sheltered. Soil, a black sandy loam; subsoil, gravel, with 

 oxide of iron in it. On comparing notes with others, I have 

 come to the conclusion that Apples do not grow to the same size 

 nor ripen so well in the north as they used to. A neighbour was 

 telling me that he was rooting out all the tender kinds, and 

 substituting Kitchen sorts, such as Lord Suffield, Stirling 

 Castle, and Tower of Glamis. Lord Suffield is one of the most 

 constant bearers we have, as also is Brown Codlin, a sort that 

 does well here, and is esteemed for a fine aromatic flavour when 

 cooked. Golden Pippin (? Downton) grows without any trace 

 of canker, but the fruit has been so small of late years that it is 

 comparatively worthless. The same may be said of all the small 

 sorts. Hawthornden and Eibston Pippin both canker very much, 

 so also does Cellini and Stirling Castle on the Paradise stock. 

 I consider the subsoil here very bad for fruit trees, being so very 

 much impregnated with iron and a black hard substance locally 

 called Pan or Moray crust. 



2. — Mr. Thomas McDonald, Balfour Castle Gardens, 

 Kirkwall, Orkney. 



Observations. — An extremely interesting contribution from so 

 northern a latitude ; the examples small, very green, hard, and 

 acid. 



Exhibitor's Bemarlcs . — Grown on trained trees, on walls, from 

 8 to 30 years of age, and generally bear a very fair crop. 



