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good crops for the last ten years, and this year the trees here are 
laden with extremely highly coloured fruit. The method of 
pruning and training practised may have something to do with the 
free cropping qualities of our trees. The branches are kept very 
thin, all side growths being freely pinched off during the summer. 
The points of the branches are allowed to extend almost as long as 
they choose ; plenty are now 4 feet long without any side shoots. 
These branches are simply wreathed with fruit, which in our strong 
calcareous soil never fail to colour splendidly. Although our trees 
are regarded as bushes they are now 15 feet high, and were it not 
for the difficulty in gathering the fruit I should allow them to grow 
still higher.—E. M. 
Bramley’s Seedling. 
My experience with this variety is somewhat limited, but from 
its appearance and manner of growth and cropping propensities I 
am positive it is an Apple that should be grown for late use. It 
keeps well into April, and some say longer ; anyhow it has all the 
appearance of so doing. The tree is an excellent grower, not one 
of those long lanky shoot-makers, but very sturdy both in foliage 
and wood ; the leaves are intensely dark green. Standard trees 
planted here in November, 1890, are bearing heavy crops of large, 
highly coloured fruit, which are, perhaps, not very handsome to 
look at, being somewhat flat with a deep eye. This variety, how¬ 
ever, has all the characteristics of what is claimed for it, being a 
free grower, heavy cropper, and late keeper. It is said to grow 
freely in any soil.—E. M. 
Tower of Glamis. 
In a young state the trees of this variety are certainly far from 
being as precocious as Prince Albert, Bramley’s Seedling, Jolly 
Beggar, Duchess of Oldenburg, and a few other now very popular 
Apples ; but when they attain a fairly large size, or say any age, 
from six years and upwards, no possible fault can be found with them. 
It seems somewhat impatient of hard pruning or stopping ; but if 
healthy trees are “ given their head,” there is no mistake about 
their cropping qualities. Since I have allowed a previously closely 
pruned tree to form a number of fresh branches the improvement 
has been most marked. Nearly every season these youDg branches 
are weighted down with very fine fruit ; and this season the crop 
is better than I have ever previously seen of the variety, and that, 
too, in spite of a heavy weight of fruit being taken from the tree 
last year. Tower of Glamis is a fine Apple, the fruit being extra 
large, somewhac conical in form with rather high “shoulders,” that 
is to say, prominent ridges, while the colour at first is pale green, 
changing to a clear yellow. It is in season from November to the 
end of January, and is an excellent cooking Apple. I have had 
no experience with this old variety on a dwarfing stock, but can 
strongly recommend it on the Crab stock and low stems for plant¬ 
ing where plenty of room can be given it.—W. Iggulden. 
Beauty of Hants. 
This is supposed to be a seedling from Blenheim Orange, and 
by some said to possess the quality of its parent, but in point of 
flavour I have not found it equal to the old favourite. The tree is 
a wonderful cropper ; our one standard has more fruit on it than any 
other in the orchard for its size, and we have some very full crops. 
The fruit is smaller than the true Blenheim, but exactly the same 
shape. Where Blenheim Orange will not succeed this is a very 
good substitute.—E. M. 
Cockpit. 
How seldom now do we see this Apple. In Yorkshire it is a 
great favourite as an orchard tree on grass, invariably giving a full 
crop of fruit of medium size. The skin is green, changing as it 
ripens to a greenish-yellow, with a faint tinge of orange next the 
sun, covered all over with small russety dots. It is an excellent 
cooking Apple, and a free grower.—E. M. 
Ciiatley’s Kernel. 
This Apple does not appear to be so generally known as it 
ought to be considering its many qualities. The tree is an excellent 
bearer under almost any conditions ; newly planted trees give a full 
crop the same year. The colour of the fruit is rather peculiar, is 
deep red, having small spots on the surface, which renders it 
attractive and distinct. Its keeping qualities are of the best. 
—E. M. 
Peasgood’s Nonesuch. 
We are not, in judging Apples, much in the habit of applying 
to kitchen sorts any other test than that of size and beauty. Hence 
it will probably always be the case that Peasgood’s Nonesuch, with¬ 
out doubt the handsomest, nay, the most beautiful of all our 
large Apples, will long take a prominent place in kitchen collec¬ 
tions. Were it a question of cropping, quality, and keeping pro¬ 
perties we should probably select New Hawthornden or Lane’s 
Prince Albert in preference. Peasgood’s Nonesuch is a light, soft, 
and somewhat fugitive Apple, generally done by the end of October. 
It is not a great cropping variety like Stirling Castle or Fiogmore 
Prolific, or indeed will it compare with scores of smaller though 
good kitchen sorts. The tree, too, is a spreading grower. How¬ 
ever, we cannot get away from the wondrous size and beauty found 
in the fruits. All the same I should not advise that it be planted 
largely, especially for purpose of profit.—D. 
American Mother Apple. 
Among high-class varieties that come in so well for dessert 
purposes, American Mother is one of the best. It is just in season 
now ; flesh of a yellowish tint, soft, juicy, and exceedingly plea¬ 
sant, with a fine flavour. The fruits are roundish, conical, almost 
egg-shaped, and colour finely on the side next the sun. We have 
not many American sorts that are high class, but this is one that 
merits general cultivation. It has done remarkably well this year. 
American Mother and King Harry, certificated the other day, 
are valuable October Apples. There is an English Mother 
Apple also, less conical in form, hardier, and rather later. The 
tree a very strong grower, and crops well when in years. If good 
October varieties be grown for dessert the later and better keeping 
sorts need not be poached upon until November and through the 
winter.—A. D. 
Baumann’s Red Reinette. 
I noticed several young trees of this Apple in Kent a few weeks 
ago that were bearing heavy crops of good sized well-coloured fruit. 
It seems to be a good bearer in a young state, and from its appear¬ 
ance I consider it will prove a valuable sort for market purposes, 
also a very useful variety for the private grower.—W. H. Divers, 
Ketton Hall Gardens , Stamford. 
Apples for Localities. 
Timely, interesting, and may be turned to most profitable 
account are the notes on Apples which are now appearing in the 
Journal. Discussion is invited, and if readers will give lists of 
Apples known to succeed in their different localities, a good work 
ought most certainly to be accomplished. This, to my mind, is the 
one thing essential, and will answer better than saying that a certain 
variety will only succeed in a certain kind of soil, when, perhaps, 
the next issue may contain a note from some correspondent giving 
quite an opposite view. I am fully convinced that there is much 
unsuccessful culture carried on through the buying of poor stunted 
trees which have been planted in thick rows, and have had no 
attention paid to them beyond, perhaps, a slight shortening of the 
shoots. Perhaps they are at last sent to some auction room, and 
there sold as bargains to persons who in a short time have reason to 
regret it. There is nothing like purchasing good, sound, healthy 
trees, and we have no cause for complaint when we can buy such 
trees for a few shillings each from some of our best nurserymen— 
trees which have been subjected to a proper system of culture by 
persons who thoroughly understand their wants, and I would advise 
all who are ordering soon to bear this in mind. 
I will now speak of a few varieties which are always sure 
bearers here, six miles from Liverpool. Our soil is about 
18 inches to 2 feet 6 inches from the solid clay, not too well 
drained, and very wet and cold in the winter time. Keswick 
Codlin, which, I believe, was the first one mentioned in the dis¬ 
cussion, never fails to bear a good crop, and is this year better 
than ever. Lord Suffield, from trees five years old up to thirty 
years, has never failed, and the fruit is very fine. Hawthornden is 
equally good. Stirling Castle, is a prodigious cropper and the fruit 
fine. Cellini is very good. The Queen, although a small tree, has 
been good. Ecklinville, Warner’s King, Mere de Menage, Yorkshire 
Greening, Golden Noble, Brabant Bellefleur, and Beauty of Kent, 
the latter bearing an enormous crop, are all excellent midseason 
varieties. Blenheim Orange is very fine every other season, and if 
the tree is not pruned closely there is always a crop. In the later 
varieties are Tower of Glamis, Flanders Pippin, Bedfordshire 
Foundling, Betty Geeson, Lane’s Prince Albert, Dumelow’s Seed¬ 
ling, Northern Greening, Alfriston, and Norfolk Beefing, all 
excellent. Of dessert varieties, Mr. Gladstone, Irish Peach, Kerry 
Pippin, Ribston Pippin, Cox’s Orange Pippin and King of Pippins, 
the old Nonpareil and Scarlet Nonpareil, Reinette du Canada, 
Sturmer Pippin, and Court Pendfi Plat are first rate. I may 
mention that all the above are grown as bushes or standards, 
but Cox’s Orange, Sturmer Pippin, and Scarlet Pearmain are 
excellent on walls. 
Regarding the paragraph headed “A Woman’s Choice,” lean 
only say that it is an excellent one, and as grown here Stirling 
Castle is just as heavy a cropper, and gives us a longer succession 
than Ecklinville, and therefore should prefer it.—R. P. R. 
