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Garden Work 
Varieties — 
Dessert 
Charles Ross. 
Cox’s Orange Pippin. 
Coronation. 
Fearns. 
King of Pippins. 
Mrs. Gladstone. 
Ribstone Pippin. 
Scarlet Nonpareil. 
Kitchen 
Bismarck. Hawthornden. 
Bromley’s Seedling. Lane’s Prince Albert. 
Cox’s Pomona. Stirling Castle. 
Dessert or Kitchen 
Blenheim Orange. Early Julien. 
Cellini. Edward VII. 
CHAPTER VII 
The Cultivation of Flowers 
This department of gardening, though perhaps not so 
useful, is just as important as the cultivation of vegetables 
or fruits. We cannot make use of flowers as we do vege- 
tables or fruits, but they bring pleasure to the minds of 
almost everyone, and when we are laid on a bed of sick- 
ness it is a great solace to see freshly cut flowers in our 
room, where we can feast our eyes on their exquisite 
colours and inhale their fragrance. Again, how the beauty 
of our garden is enhanced by the cultivation of flowers! 
Without their added beauty our gardens would lose much 
of their charm. It is therefore necessary to understand 
the cultivation of flowers, for there can be very few 
persons in the whole world who do not appreciate their 
beauty. 
