The Illustrated Guide for Amateur Gardeners. 
Miscellaneous Fruit Trees, &e. 
The large and steadily increasing demand for all 
kinds of choice Fruit Trees, &c., furnishes a sure 
indication that good English-grown fruit is, year by 
year, becoming more appreciated, and it is clearly 
shown by the splendid samples being brought to our 
markets and sold at highly remunerative prices, that 
by planting only really choice varieties, and with good 
cultivation, Apples, Fears, and other fruits can be 
grown in this country of a size, flavour, and quality 
altogether surpassing those of foreign production. 
Wkerevor space in the garden will admit, fruit of some kind should 
be grown, as apart from its great usefulness in point of domestio 
economy, its great value as a health agent cannot be fairly over-estimated 
where it is freely used in the household. 
For small gardens such compact-growing fruits as dwarf or pyramid 
Apples and Pears, Gooseberries, Currants, Raspberries, and Strawberries 
are the most useful, and where there is a good south wall a Vino or 
Peach should be planted, whilst a wall with a westerly aspect will do well 
for Cherries or Pears, and a north wall is well suited for Currants. 
In planting in the garden be careful to plant at such a distance apart 
that the plants get the full benefit of light and air, the result of over- 
crowding being but too often barrenness or inferior quality. 
In very dry weather young fruit-bearing trees of Apples, Pears, 
Plums, &c., arc much benefited by a liberal supply of water, which 
promotes a healthy growth and prevents cracking of the fruit. Dwarf 
or pyramid trees are also rendered more fruitful by being partially lifted 
every other year and having the roots slightly pruned. 
The various stocks of choice Fruit Trees we offer include all the 
best varieties of their respective kinds in cultivation. The plants will 
be found well grown, strong, and healthy, with abundant fibrous roots, 
and in the best possible state for removal. 
The prices quoted per dozen for Apples, Pears, Gooseberries, 
Currants, &c., are for our own selection of kinds, and are governed 
principally by the size and strength of the plants supplied. When the 
selection is left to us, customers may rely on only the best sorts being sent. 
APPLES. 
Dwarfs or Bushes in fine variety per doz. 10s. 6d. ; each Is. 
Dwarf Trained ... ... ... ... each 3s. 6d. 
Pyramids, our own selection of varieties 
per doz 21s. to 64s. ; each 2s. to 5s. 
Standards, our own selection of choice varieties 
per doz. 18s., 21s., 24s. ; each Is. 6d. to 2s. 6d 
EARLY AND SECOND EARLY APPLES. 
D denotes dessert, K kitchen. 
Devonshire Quarrenden (D.), Duchess of Oldenburg (K.), 
Eckinville Seedling (K.), Irish Peach (D.), Juneating (D.), 
Keswick Codlin (K.), Kerry Pippin (D.), King of the Pippins 
(D.), Lord Suffield (K.), Stirling Castle (K.), Worcester 
Pearmain (K.D.). 
MEDIUM EARLY APPLES. 
Adams’ Pearmain (D.), Aromatic Russet (D.), Bess Pool 
(D.K.), Blenheim Orange (D.K.), Cellini (D.K.), Cox’s Orange 
Pippin (D.), Cox’s Pomona (K.), Doctor Harvey (K.), Gloria 
Muudi (K.), Kentish Eillbasket (K.), Lane’s Prince Albert 
(K.), Lord Grosvenor (K.), Mhre do Menage (K.), New 
Hawthorndcn (K.), Peasgood’s Nonsuch (K.), Ribston Pippin 
(D.), The Queen (K.), Yorkshire Greening (K.). 
LATE APPLES. 
Alfriston (K.), Annie Elizabeth (K.), Beauty of Kent (K.), 
Court of Wick (D.), Court Pendu Plat (D ), Dumelow’s 
Seedling (K.), Golden Pippin (D.), Golden Russet (D.), 
Keddleston Pippin (D.), Lady Henniker (If.), Lord Burgliley 
(D.), Normanton Wonder (K.) (Dumelow’s Seedling ), Old 
Nonpareil (D), Reinetle du Canada (I).K.), Scarlet Nonpareil 
(D.), Stunner Pippin (D.), Warner’s King (K.). 
And many others. 
NEW APPLE— Vicar of Beighton. A seedling raised in the Vicarage Gardens at Beighton, Norfolk, it has proved 
itself one of the handsomest, most prolific, and best keeping apples in cultivation. The fruit is large and roundish, and when ripe 
of a deep bright crimson colour, mottled, and striped with yellow and green, giving it the most beautiful appearance, which, if well 
kept, it retains till April or May ; whilst its pale yellow flesh is of fine flavour, juicy, and all that can be desired in a first-class kitchen 
Apple. Will prove a most valuable sort for market growers on account of its very handsome appearance and excellent keeping 
qualities. Dwarf Bushes or Maidens, each 2s. 6d. Standards, each 7s. 6d. 
NEW APPLE— Beauty of Beauty. This fine new early Dessert Apple, on account of its earliness, extremely 
handsome appearance, good flavour, and free cropping qualities, will eventually, both for market purposes and private use, take the 
leading place among first early Apples. 
The “Beauty of Bath” is fit for use at the end of July and early part of August. It immediately follows the Juneating, and 
is earlier than the Irish Peach, from which it is quite distinct The fruit is of medium size, round and flattened, the ground 
colour a yellowish green, beautifully striped and spotted with crimson toward the sun; the flesh is firm and pale yellow, and it 
has a brisk, sub-acid flavour far superior to that of other early apples. It is a certain and free cropper. Our stock trees have not 
failed once during the last six years, and it will on this account be a valuable market variety 
Strong Maiden Trees, each Is. 6d. and 2s. 6d. 
