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subsoil, but even in shallow soils Apples succeed, only care is taken to 
feed them by surface dressing of manure. Manure orchards ! Why not 1 
The grass would be far better; a dressing of compost, ditch scouring, 
pond cleanings, roadside parings, with a sixth of lime added, are excellent 
Dessert Apples. —These as a rule are small or not more than medium 
sized. We want Orange Pippins as large again, but then we have larger 
in kinds that are good either for eating or culinary purposes. 
October to December. —Cox’s Orange PippiD, a beautiful Apple, and 
Fig. 46.—Camellia tricolor. 
if only given occasionally, but better if alternating with a dressing of 
manuie every alternate year. Twenty cartloads per acre of manure or 
compost. 
the very best variety in cultivation, but my experience of it is confined to 
silicious and oolitic loams overlying sand or gravel, in which it attains 
much more colour than on deep loam on a cool bottom. Very free in 
