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THE STEIPED BEEFING APPLE 
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Dr. Hogg says, in the Fruit Manual^ of the Desse Tardive Eipe in the 
end of September and October,” ‘‘ This is one of the very best late Peaches,” 
At Chiswick this season it fruited on the open wall, two small cordon trees pro^^ 
ducing eighteen fruits, which vrere gathered on September 30th, They were all 
large and highly coloured, and of most excellent quality. 
Here is a speciality worthy of the attention of some of our enterprising 
nurserymen.—A. F. B, 
THE STRIPED BEEFING APPLE. 
jHIS may be considei’ed a Norfolk apple, the original seedling tree being first 
noticed in the neighbourhood of Norwich. It is a large kitchen apple, and 
keeps nearly as long as the Norfolk Beejing^ but is more juicy and better 
suited for cooking purposes; besides, it is much larger. This may be seen 
by the annexed outline of a fulh sized fruit. 
I have grown the Sirfed Beefing for many years, and seldom found it fail in 
fruitfulness, though in general the crop has been below that of smaller kinds, but 
equal to that of some of the large sorts. The fruit on the sunny side is of a 
mahogany-colour, while the shaded side is striped with tinges of red and greenish 
yellow. The stalk is very short, and the eye set in a deep basin ; in fact the apple 
somewhat resembles the Mere de Menage^ another large-fruited variet}^ worthy of 
notice. I have mentioned the Norfolk Ijeefing in order to notice that this is 
