THE AMATEURS KITCHEN GARDEN. 
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best aftercare will but rarely restore the trees to health. In 
the fruit garden proper the case is different, for espalier and 
cordon apple trees are necessary features there, and a bower 
walk formed by apple trees trained over forms a pleasing and 
useful form of approach. 
The apple is the least particular in respect of soil of all 
our fruit trees, but a deep strong loam suits it best, and 
although drainage is not a matter of primary importance, a 
soil that holds much stagnant water in winter will not pro- 
duce healthy trees. 
A selection of Apples must in any and every case have 
relation to the local circumstances. Thus the famous Ash- 
mead’s Kernel thrives nowhere so well as in the neighbour- 
hood of Gloucester ; the beautiful and useful Blenheim 
Orange produces many crops of the most beautiful fruits on 
light soil in the southern counties, but is comparatively useless 
on the heavy clay lands in the northern suburbs of the metro- 
polis. The following are such as combine good qualities with 
adaptiveness of habit, and will suit for the northern and mid- 
land counties generally. Those marked with an asterisk are 
to be preferred in forming a small collection. 
Twenty-five Sorts of Culinary Apples. — Alfriston *, 
Aromatic Russet, Beauty of Kent* , Bedfordshire Foundling, 
Blenheim Orange *, Cox's Pomona , Costard, Echlinville , 
Gooseberry Pippin, Keswick Codim*, Mank’s Codlin, Winter- 
Codlin*, French Crab, Dumelow s Seedling * or Wellington, 
Flower of Kent, Gloria Mundi, Lady Henniker, New Haw- 
thornden* , Norfolk Beefing*, Kentish Fillbasket* , Lord 
Sujfield*, Northern Greening, London Pippin*, Royal Russet*, 
Yorkshire Greening. These are all adapted for orchard and 
garden culture. 
Twenty-five sorts of Dessert Apples. — Ashmead’s 
Kernel*, Baddow Pippin*, Braddick’s Nonpareil, Cellini, 
Cornish Gilliflower , Cockle Pippin *, Cox's Orange Pippin*, 
Court Pendu Plat, F earns Pippin*, Knight’s Downton 
Pippin, Golden Harvey, Golden Pippin*, Lrish Peach*, 
Juneating, Hubbard’s Pearmain*, King of the Pippins*, 
Lord Burghley* , Newtown Pippin, Nonsuch, Northern Spy, 
Reinette du Canada, Ribston Pippin*, Scarlet Nonpareil, 
Worcester Pippin, Wyken Pippin*. 
The Apricot is occasionally met with in the south of Eng- 
land as a standard tree, and in that form is rather to be- 
