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in wet cold summers and autumns Apples never ripen properly so as to keep well. 
I have in the fruit-room at the present time (April) the following varieties of dessert 
Apples, all good-sized specimens and nicely coloured, namely :— Court-Pendu-Plat , 
Old Nonpareil , Fearn’s Pippin , Golden Harvey , Keddleston Pippin , a delicious little 
apple; Lamb Abbey Pear main , one of the very latest keepers; Reinette van 
Mojis and Reinette du Canada , both very large and good late dessert kinds; and 
Sturmer Pippin , which is one of the most valuable late apples that can be planted, 
both for flavour and for being a sure bearer. The Colville Blanche , from small 
horizontal cordons planted on the bottom of an east wall, is another most 
delicious apple here, and keeps well; it is likewise one of the very best to be 
eaten by invalids, as it melts in the mouth without much mastication. 
Of kitchen Apples, the kinds which are in the best condition here, in the same 
fruit-room with the above, are the following, namely :—The Alfriston , a valuable 
large apple, and the tree a great bearer ; this sort and the French Crab can be kept 
in a good fruit-room for two years without the fruit shrivelling much ; the Brabant 
Bellejleur , another large and good-keeping kind ; and Dumeloivs Seedling , or 
Wellington , an excellent sauce apple, with a brisk acid flavour. The Bess Pool 
is a fine-coloured sort and late keeper, but the tree is only a shy bearer. The 
Bedfordshire Foundling and Rymer are both excellent late keepers ; and Allen s 
Everlasting is the latest keeper of all, and is like the Sturmer Pippin in shape 
and flavour. 
In the above list of late dessert and kitchen Apples, I believe there will be 
found as good a selection as can be planted, where very late-keeping varieties are 
desired. In planting new orchards, too many of the early and mid-season sorts 
of Apples are in general planted, and there is produced a glut of fruit that will 
not keep, and which is not nearly so valuable for use or for the market, as the 
late-keeping kinds. —William Tillery, Welbeck. 
THE NARCISSUS* 
® HIS is one of a series of illustrated monographs of popular garden flowers, 
which will be welcomed by every one taking interest in ornamental gar- 
f dening. The Narcissi have within the last few years excited much interest 
amongst cultivators, and the appearance, therefore, of this work just at 
their blooming season was very opportune. Mr. Baker’s synopsis of the species 
may be said to form the groundwork of the text, to which in a separate chapter 
the author has added a variety of less technical information. He has also gone 
into the history, the poetry, the culture and propagation, and the diseases of 
these plants, for which purpose he has apparently diligently sought for materials 
wherever they could be found, the result being a very readable account of one of 
our most beautiful early spring flowers. 
* The Narcissus: its History and Culture , with Coloured Plates and Descriptions of all Known Species and 
Principal Varieties. By F. W. Burbidgo. To which is added, a scientific review of the entire genus, by J. G. 
Baker, F.L.S. London: Reeve and Co. 
