JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
[ October 11, 1883. 
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6on, Crawley, which comprised 250 varieties, and is throughout distinguished 
by high quality, the fruit large, even, and in the majority of cases beautifully 
•coloured ; they are also carefully labelled with their names, uses, and other 
particulars, which add much interest to the exhibit. A few of the best 
varieties are the following Cox’s Pomona, Blenheim Pippin, New Haw- 
thornden, Gloria Mundi, Royal Russet, Holland Pippin, Carvan’s Yictoria, 
Colonel Vaughan, Worcester Pearmain, Dumelow’s Seedling, Peasgood’s 
Nonsuch, Pride of the Mill, Glory of Charlwood, Red Muster, King Apple, 
Jefferson, Golden Noble, and Avalanche, the last a large yellow Apple being 
very handsome. 
Mr. S. Ford, The Gardens, Leonardslee, Horsham, shows 150 varieties, which 
he states is half the number grown there. The site is 273 feet above sea 
level, and he finds all the varieties a week to ten days late and weak in 
colour. Still some of the Apples shown are very handsome and deficient in 
no qualities of importance. Especially fine are Blenheim Pippin, King Apple, 
Thomson, Hollandbury, Bedfordshire Foundling, Mere de Manage, Warner’s 
King, Wax Apple, Flower of Kent, Red Cadbury, Duck’s Bill, Forge, Quar- 
renden, Empeior Alexander, Calville Blanche very large, and Gravenstein, 
also good. Eight seedlings are included in the above, the most remarkable 
Being one named Marie Henriette, a small deep crimson-coloured and very 
prolific Apple. Mr. J. Rust, The Gardens, Eridge Castle, Tunbridge Wells, 
has forty varieties, grown in a very exposed position 400 feet above sea level 
on a stiff loam. As might be expected, few were 
•unusually fine, but Mere de Menage, Sops in Wine, 
Striped Beefing, and Emperor Napoleon were of good 
•6ize. Mr. R. Mills, Southdown Road, Shoreham, ba3 
twenty varieties, and Mr. T. Moorhouse, Lapwood 
Gardens, Groombridge, about the same number, both 
tfairly good, but not of remarkable merit. 
WILTSHIRE. 
Several exhibitors have examples of Wiltshire 
Apples, but the majority are not remarkable for their 
high quality. Mr. J. Horsefield, The Gardens, Hey- 
tesbury, sends a small collection of a dozen varieties, 
but these include some of the best in the county, 
Annie Elizabeth and Cox’s Orange Pippin being re¬ 
markably fine. Mr. C. Warden, The Gardens, Claren¬ 
don Park, Salisbury, has forty varieties unnamed and 
rather small; and Mr. G. Allen, The Gardens, Rains- 
Ibury Manor, Hungerford, has thirty varieties, also 
unnamed and of moderate size. 
WORCESTERSHIRE. 
Several excellent collections of fine Apples are con- 
•fcributed, being grown in this county; but one of the 
most noteworthy of all, though certainly few varieties, 
is that from Messrs. R. Smith & Co., Worcester. This 
includes two dishes of the celebrated and favourite 
Worcester Pearmain, of extraordinarily rich colour, a 
dark glowing crimson. The variety Grand Duke Con¬ 
stantine, a large and handsome Apple tinged with a 
delicate and soft rosy hue, is similarly beautiful, and 
■Smith’s Pippin, a moderate sized Apple, yellow, and 
very even, is another attractive variety, and the better- 
known Yorkshire Beauty sent out by this firm is also 
finely coloured. Worcester Pearmain is shown ex¬ 
tremely well in dozens of collections, but the samples 
above mentioned are unrivalled in richness. Mr. E. 
•Cockbill, Wick House, Pershore, has fifty varieties, 
including some fine specimens of Lord Suffield, Kentish 
Fillbasket, Blenheim Pippin, Golden Noble, Nine 
•Square, and Brunswick Codlin. Mr. J. Twinberrow, 
"Walsgrove, Great Witley, Stourport, has samples of 
Red Dick, a late cider Apple, very dull red on one side 
and of conical form, and Counsellor, locally known as 
Walsgrove Wonder, very fine. 
prolific. It was raised by Mr. H. Smith of Cottenham ten or twelve years 
ago. Mr. H. Apthorne, Albion Brewery, Cambridge, sends six varieties for 
name. 
Durham has one collection of ninety varieties from the Gardeners’ Institute, 
Darlington (F. C. Ford, Secretary), and there are fairly good samples of Tower 
of Glamis, Beauty of Kent, Gravenstein, King Apple, Potts’Seedling, Ecklin- 
ville, Blenheim Pippin, Bedfordshire Foundling, Emperor Alexander, and 
Cellini. 
Huntingdonshire.—Messrs. Wood & Ingram, Huntingdon, exhibit a fair 
collection of twenty-four varieties, not very large but even and clean ; 
Murfitt’s Seedling, several local varieties such as Greaves’ Wonder—also 
Blenheim Pippin are the best shown. Mr. A. Harding, The Gardens, Orton 
Hall, Peterborough, also has twenty-four varieties ; Cox’s Pomona, Potts’ 
Seedling, Alfriston, Ribston Pippin, and Striped Beefing being especially 
good, though several others are also fine. 
Lancashire.—Mr. R. Maries, Meythorpe Nursery, Lytham, is one of the 
principal exhibitors from Lancashire, for, though only showing fourteen 
varieties, they are nearly all of fair size and good shape. Lord Derby, Potts’ 
Seedling, Ringer, Court of Wick, and Blenheim Pippin especially. Mr. J. 
Hathaway, Latham House Gardens, Ormskirk, shows sixty varieties, but all 
rather small and green ; and Mr. F. Winkworth, The Gardens, Childwell 
Hall near Liverpool, has fourteen varieties of little merit. 
YORKSHIRE. 
The most noteworthy of the York collections is 
that from Mr. Mclndoe, gardener to Sir Joseph Pease, 
Bart., M.P., Hutton Hall, Guisborough. This com¬ 
prises about fifty varieties, and in several cases dupli¬ 
cates are staged to show the difference in quality of the same variety under 
glass and outside, the former being in every case incomparably superior 
in size and general appearance. This is particularly the case with Alfriston, 
Warner’s King, Prince Albert, Lord Suffield, and Lady Henniker. Specimens 
•of an Apple from New Zealand, and named Prince Bismarck, are also shown. 
It is a large green Apple, somewhat in the way of Warner’s King, but 
•with a deeper eye. Some of the best of other varieties staged are Peasgood’s 
Nonesuch, Melon, Lewis’s Incomparable, Evagil, Annie Elizabeth, Small’s 
Admirable, and Potts’ Seedling. Mr. Bourne, gardener to Admiral Chaloner, 
Longhill, Guisborough, sends nineteen varieties, but none is very remark¬ 
able. Mr. W. Chuck, The Gardens, Brodsworth Hall, Doncaster, has 
seventy-two varieties of fair quality. Mr. G. Summers, The Gardens, 
fsandbeck Park, Rotherham, contributes forty-nine varieties, including 
some good fruits of Mere de Manage, Warner’s King, Nelson’s Glory, and 
Fearn’s Pippin. Mr. H. J. Clayton, The Gardens, Grimston Hall, Tadcaster, 
exhibits thirty varieties ; and Messrs. J. Slater & Son, New Malton, have 
about fifty varieties, all grown on the Crab stock. None is large, but 
they are clean and of even form. 
OTHER COUNTIES. 
Bedfordshire Apples occupy very little space, only one exhibitor— 
•namely, Mr. Laxton, Bedford, showing. He has some fine examples of the new 
Schoolmaster Apple, which are large, of good form, and are much admired 
for their general fine appearance. 
Cambridgeshire.—Very poorly represented is this county, Mr. H. Bull, 
Bernard House, Cottenham, having eleven varieties of little note except one 
called the Jolly Miller, a dark red Apple of moderate size and said to be very 
Fig 60.—Lord Derby Apple (See page 321). 
Lincolnshire is represented by two collections—from Messrs. Rowson 
Brothers, West Torrington Gardens, of thirty-one varieties, but small and 
poorly coloured, and the other from Blankney Hall Gardens, of fifty varie¬ 
ties, the best of which is Warner’s King. 
Monmouthshire is represented by only one small collection—namely, ten 
varieties from Mr. W. Jenkins, The Willows, Abergavenny, but these are 
exceedingly richly coloured. Fearn’s Pippin, Yorkshire Beauty, and Emperor 
Alexander are first-rate ; Monmouthshire Beauty, a very rich red Apple of 
moderate size, most attractive, being the finest coloured of all. The latter 
fruits are from a tree on the Paradise stock. 
Norfolk.—Two collections of forty and fifty varieties respectively are 
staged by Norfolk growers, Mr. E. Burbut-y, Cossey Park Gardens, Norwich, 
having the former number, mostly small samples; and Colville Brown, Esq., 
The Paddocks, S waff ham, has the larger number, similarly small and green. 
Shropshire.—Another of the moderately represented counties, two small 
collections being staged. Mr. H. S. Kemp, Haughton Gardens, Shifnal, has 
forty varieties, none very fine, but American Catkin, Tower of Glamis, and 
Lord Suffield are of good size. Mr. G. Mardall, The Gardens, Ashton Hall, 
sends several unnamed varieties. 
Staffordshire. — Mr. Stevens, The Gardens, Trentham, has fourteen 
varieties of moderate merit, Cox’s Orange Pippin being the best. 
Westmoreland.—A very moderate display is provided bj r this county, 
Mr. C. Crossland, The Gardens, Beechwood, Arnside, being the only exhi¬ 
bitor, staging thirty-four varieties, three fruit of each, and mostly small. A 
small dark red variety named Duke William is described by the exhibitor as 
a good kitchen Apple and very prolific. 
