396 JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



November. If used in September or October it is of excellent flavour, 

 and is the best baking apple grown by me. The growth of the tree 

 is regular and very strong. 



13. Lord Grosvenor. — Uniformly a good cropper and of brisk acid 

 flavour. It is the best early cooker, but it keeps badly. 



/Very similar in character. Both crop well 



14. Ecklinville and regularly, and are of a good average 



Seedhng. -j size ; neither keeps very well, but they are 



15. Potts' Seedhng. I good market varieties and command a 



\ ready sale. 



16. Lord Sufheld. — Not a heavy cropper, but of excellent flavour, 

 and a first-rate mid-season cooker. 



17. Frogmore Prolific. — Well deserves its name, but is of poor 

 flavour and keeps badly, so I cannot recommend it except as a very 

 productive variety ; is occasionally badly scabbed. 



18. Cellini. — A good cropper and an attractive apple, good cooker 

 but too sharp in flavour for dessert. Bruises very soon, decays easily 

 in a wet season, and is a poor keeper. 



19. Dumelow's Seedling. ) Uncertain in bearing, but of good flavour, 



20. Newton Wonder. f and both keep well. 



21. StirHng Castle. — Good cropper but does not grow freely. 

 Fruit of good flavour and keeps fairly well. 



22. Beauty of Kent. — Uncertain bearer, but of good size and 

 flavour when quite ripe, and almost good enough for dessert. 



23. Lane's Prince Albert. — Very uncertain and does not do well 

 with me, but is of good flavour and keeps well when I have a crop at 

 all. Possibly my trees are not true to name, as I have seen much 

 handsomer specimens elsewhere.* 



24. Alfriston. ^ Both crop well, but their flavour is 



25. Hambledon DeuxAns. j poor and rather woolly if kept. 



26. Peasgood's Nonesuch. — Grows a great size and is of beautiful 

 shape and colour, but lacks flavour and has to be disposed of at once^ 

 as it deteriorates very rapidly if stored. 



27. Queen Caroline. — Has grown well, but I cannot recommend 

 it either for flavour or its keeping qualities. 



Five other varieties were included in my original planting, but 

 have since been discarded for various reasons, viz. : — 



Hawthornden. — Cropped heavily and regularly, but was usually 

 scabbed and kept very badly. 



Duchess of Oldenburg. — Though strongly recommended to me, 

 I found it of poor flavour, a bad keeper, and easily bruised. 



Mr. Gladstone. \ Were all of poor flavour and quality. I am 



Wyken Pippin, [inclined to think that the two former were 



Red Juneating. ) not true to name. 



* Mr. S. T. Wright, of Wisley, informs me, since this was written, that 

 they are the variety ' Seaton House;' 



