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from the pen of an experienced cultivator, and we are sure the 
talented and never-tiring conductor of that paper will not 
object to our availing ourselves of the prominent parts of so 
useful an article. The labours of the late Thomas Andrew 
Knight have been of inestimable value to this department of 
horticulture, not alone from the improvements which, during 
a long and active life, he himself effected in the varieties of the 
apple and pear, but also from the attention which he has 
thereby drawn to these fruits, making them of infinitely more 
value in the dessert than any other produced in this country. 
The writer of the article referred to has given synonymes, 
or the different names, by which the sorts are usually known, 
their season of ripening, and also remarks which will be useful 
to the cultivator of these useful fruits. The following is the 
list of apples, restricted to twelve varieties. 
APPLES. 
Names. 
Synonymes. • 
Seftson of Ripening. 
Devonshire Quarrenden. . 
..Red Quarrenden 
Oslin 
Wormsley Pippin 
..Knight's Codlin 
King of Pippins 
..Hampshire Yellow 
Kerry Pippin 
Court of Wick 
. . Wood’s H untingdon . . . . 
Golden Pippin 
. . Pepin d’Or, Reinette d’.4n 
g. Nov., April. 
Ribston Pippin 
. . Formosa Pippin ........ 
Sam Young 
..Irish Russet 
Old Nonpareil 
..Reinette Nonpareil 
Scarlet ditto 
..New Scarlet ditto 
Court Pendre Plat 
. .Garnon's Apple 
In the above list 1 have placed such only as I know to be 
vigorous-growing and free-bearing kinds in almost all soils. 
The Golden Pippin, however, as generally planted, is an ex- 
ception to this rule. Young trees of this kind appear deter- 
mined not to grow in old orchards; but if pits four feet wide 
and eighteen inches deep be prepared, and well drained with 
brick rubbish, and then filled with fresh loam from an old 
pasture, with about one-fourth of leaf-mould, or perfectly 
decayed manure, they will grow quite as well as any of the 
delicate kinds. I intend to plant according to the above 
suggestions, and have not a doubt but success will crowm my 
labours. Sam Young is an excellent dessert apple, by no 
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