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which we shall not readily find in any other kinds. In 
use from the middle of February to nearly Midsummer. 
Syke-house Russet is a very useful thing in the north, 
but we will scarcely call it first-rate. It is in use 
through November and December. 
Early Margaret, an old and well-known summer 
kind. For many years this, and that other precocious 
kind, the Juneating, have cheered the heart of many a 
youngster, who would break through a stone wall to get 
at the first summer Apple. 
Early Harvest, too, is a very nice thing, but soon 
over. This may, in spite of its name, be counted an 
October fruit. 
Dutch Mignonne is much esteemed by some good 
judges, but I cannot speak from experience. In use 
through January and February. 
Hughes's Golden Pippin is good, handsome, and a good 
bearer. This, too, everybody should possess. 
Pitmaston Nonpareil is a capital fruit, good flavour, 
and, as to bearing, is most prolific; is in use from 
December to April. 
Adams’s Pearmain is a handsome fruit, and, more¬ 
over, of respectable flavour. Those who want to furnish 
full dessert tables will do well to cultivate a tree of this; 
for it possesses beauty of a peculiar character; and where 
two or more dishes of Apples are served, we can some¬ 
times afford to give up half a point as to flavour, for the 
sake of beauty and distinctness in one of the pair. 
Thus, say at the end of October, and two dishes of 
Apples are required ; let us then send one of well- 
preserved Kerry's, and a second of Adams's Pearmain; 
or you may give a dish of Ross's Nonpareil, with its 
fine aroma and peculiar Fennouillet flavour, as our great 
society men term it. By-the-by, the last-named is a 
very useful Apple, and has a beauty of its own. A 
sound, russetty ground, richly overlaid with gold and 
crimson; it is, when kept thinly pruned, and nicely 
trained and dwarfed, a beauteous thing. 
Old Nonpjariel. We may not pass this time-honoured 
fruit, which, with all the infirmities of the Ribston, 
possesses still a native dignity amongst Apjfles. I 
ought to have named that the Ross’s Nonpareil is a 
December and January fruit, and that the latter is 
from Christmas to May. 
King of the Pippins’, one of the most useful Apples in 
the kingdom. If you have two good trees of this, go 
into your fruit-room when you will, and these right royal 
Pippins will almost ask you to dish them up. A most 
healthy tree, an enormous bearer, good-looking, and 
respectably flavoured. Who would not have such a 
crowned head to dignify his orchard, or to enrich his 
trellisses? I wonder much that our market-men have 
not planted scores of acres of it. Any man having three 
statute acres of right fruit loam, and planting one of 
this, one of the Wellington, and one of the Louise 
Bonne of Jersey Pear, might stand with his arms folded 
the rest of his days. This monarch of the Pippins is in 
use from the beginning of November to the middle of 
February. Here, again, is a likely thing for stocks, if 
the pips were sown. 
Lamb Abbey Pearmain. What a useful tree? Neat, 
high-flavoured, the most certain bearer, probably, in the 
north, and of excellent dwarfing habits. Who can praise 
it too much ? And here 1 would have it understood, that 
I by no means feel it my duty to recommend a few 
“ oxquisites ” alone, such as would be lauded only by a 
first-rate epicure, without the slightest roference to its 
general utility, bearing, and other habits. No; we bear 
in mind the thousands of little gardeners whose 
limitation as to ground is so sevore that they must 
make a suro hit in what they plant. But this Lamb 
Abbey is an Apple for every one who is thus limited. In 
use from Christmas until May, or later. 
Ord's Apple, an offspring of the celebrated Newtown 
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Pippin, so noted amongst some of the merchant princes 
of Liverpool, and which our metropolitan friends are by 
no means ignorant of. This Apple is little known ; and, 
if grown neglectfully, as many grow their Apples, would 
be speedily despised. But to those who love that smart 
and brisk character of juice, which I cannot so well 
describe as by referring to a first-rare Nonpareil in high 
perfection, I say, plant an Ord’s Apple on an east wall. 
This is in use from January toil ay; but let me here 
caution our readers not to choose it for beauty’s sake; it j 
is about as ugly as Ne Plus Meuris Pear; and I need say 
little more. 
Pearson's Plate is another charming fruit. This is, i 
I consider, almost indispensable to little gardeners, and 
big ones have no right to turn up their nose at> it. 
Neat-looking on the dish, carrying, to the last moment, 
a fresh appearance, a free bearer, and, from its moderated 
character of growth, adapted to a dwarfing system, I 
must beg to recommend it strongly. 
Fearns Pippin is a showy-looking and decent fruit, 
and although a very old kind, and not particularly high- 
flavoured, possesses a liveliness and mellowness of flesh 
which still recommends it to some palates. 
Beachamwell is highly spoken of; but for my part, I 
have no real experience of its character. I am given to 
understand that it requires a little coaxing, such as an 
east or west wall in the more northern parts. It is in 
use through the spring. 
Hicks’s Fancy, or Stag's Nonpareil, is a kind we 
recommend to all who prefer mellowness and briskness 
to hard and rich Apples. It is a good bearer, capable 
of a dwarfing system, and will produce as much fruit 
on a given space of ground as any other Apple; I mean, 
as to shading contiguous things. 
Our readers will, doubtless, feel assured that nothing 
can be easier than to swell this list, and thus to give 
it more apparent importance; our only desire is, to 
recommend kinds well known through the kingdom 
by really practical men for their genuine worth. At 
the same time, we leave it to the public to observe that 
this is done without the slightest desire to impede the 
introduction of new and good kinds. We are much in 
want of this kind of renovation, provided it is done with 
discrimination and honesty of purpose. 
R. Errington. 
MEETING OF THE HORTICULTURAL 
SOCIETY.— Oth March. 
This w T as the most crowded meeting in my time; but 
there were not quite so many of the “ practicals ” there 
as were at the February meeting; yet there were many 
more than the usual average of nurserymen and 
gardeners, young and old, and the Society had to throw 
open the library, and the room behind it, to make room 
for the display of plants, fruits, and forced vegetables, 
in addition to their large meeting-room. All the tables 
round the rooms, and along or across the middle of the 
rooms, were so loaded, that the passages had to be 
contracted, so as that the flow of company put one in 
mind of the circulation of hot-water in open gutters. 
The plants and flowers looked as fresh and gay as if 
we had no winter at all. Tho only plants in season 
which were not represented were Camellias. Orchids 
seem inexhaustible; winter or summer they take tho 
lead of all others. 
CHINESE PRIMROSES. 
My bantering lias done wonders among the growers 
of Chinese Primroses at last. I think we had ten or 
twelve collections of them from as many growers, and 
there was one kind, and only one, of which there were 
three plants that came up to my standard in this race. 
THE COTTAGE GARDENER. 
