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roots, thus keeping an equal balance between 
top and bottom, and securing healthy matured 
growth with plenty of fruit buds. 
Within a few yards of where we write, in 
one of the oldest kitchen gardens in the king¬ 
dom, are a number of trees of Heiton House, 
Stirling Castle, and Keswick Codlin, which 
have been pruned severely year by year. 
Crops have been, and not mean ones, grown 
close to their stems, on deeply dug and heavily 
manured ground, showing that neither the 
severe pruning nor heavy cropping affects 
their bearing ; while the unpruned trees close 
by bear heavy crops one season out of three. 
It was refreshing, two years ago, when taking 
a tour from the Midlands of England to see 
the trees referred to in this kitchen garden 
loaded to the breaking of their branches, and 
not a third-rate crop to be seen anywhere else. 
In the old unpruned orchard close by (of six 
acres), there were not six bushels of apples 
and pears. We would advise fresh beginners 
not to go to the extreme on either side of 
non-pruning or severe pruning. Keep the 
roots near the surface and a mass of fibre, 
and we have no fear of good results.—M. T. 
APPLE, GOLDEN SPIRE. 
[Plate 624.] 
f HERE are but few more handsome Apples 
than the one which is the subject of 
our present notice and illustration, viz., 
Golden Spire. The name is very 
appropriate, since it approaches more nearly 
to the idea of Golden than any other Apple we 
know; and in shape and build it is very spire¬ 
like. This beautiful Apple seems'to belong 
to the western counties, where it is not only 
. considered an excellent culinary variety, but is 
also used largely for cider purposes. It is but 
rarely grown in the neighbourhood of London, 
and only within the last few years have we 
noted its appearance on the exhibition table. 
Mr. Haycock, of Barham Court, Maidstone, 
knows its value, and cultivates it with great 
care. At the National Apple Congress it was 
represented in seven collections, the examples 
from which our illustration is taken being 
exhibited by the Cranston Nursery Co., Here¬ 
ford. 
The variety may bo thus described:—- 
Fruit large, conical, somewhat angular, espe¬ 
cially near to the e 3 -e. Eye open, deeply set; 
stalk short. Skin of a pure uniform golden 
yellow throughout, very clear. Flesh white, 
tender, somewhat acid. Season, October to 
Christmas. The tree is stated to be a great 
cropper.—A. F. B. 
INDEX 
TO THE PLATES PUBLISHED IN THE 
PLOEIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
{^Concluded from p. 175.) 
FRUITS. 
Vol. 
Plate 
Page 
Apple American Mother ... 
1883 .. 
. 592 .. 
. 121 
Auuie Elizabeth . 
Baumann’s Bed "Winter 
1869 .. 
. 301 .. 
. 241 
Eeinette. 
1879 .. 
. 496 .. 
. 121 
Beauty of Hants . 
1882 .. 
. 564 ., 
.. 89 
Bramley’s Seedling . 
1884 .. 
. 620 ., 
.. 153 
Calville Ilouge Prmcox ... 
1884 
.. 622 . 
.. 169 
Cox’s Orange Pippin . 
1858 ., 
.. 146 . 
.. 322 
Cox’s Eedleaf Basset . 
1876 ., 
429 . 
.. 229 
Duchess of Oldenberg . 
1881 ., 
.. 544 . 
.. 121 
Early Julien. 
1879 . 
.. 486 . 
.. 41 
Ecklinville Seedling. 
1881 ., 
.. 534 . 
.. 41 
Eairy .. 
1870 . 
.. 305 . 
.. 49 
ITench Paradise . 
1875 , 
.. 395 . 
.. 97 
Galloway Pippin . 
1872 .. 
. 335 . 
.. 193 
Golden Spire. 
1884 . 
.. 624 . 
.. 185 
Herefordshire Beefing. 
1884 .. 
,. 604 . 
,. 25 
Irish Peach . 
1862 .. 
. 198 . 
.. 120 
Jolly Beggar. 
1878 .. 
. 462 . 
.. 33 
Lady Henniker. 
1875 . 
.. 392 . 
.. 61 
La Pameuse . 
1883 . 
.. 586 . 
.. 73 
Landsherger Beinette. 
1883 . 
.. 600 . 
.. 185 
Lane’s Prince Albert . i 
il875 . 
1 1884 . 
.. 406 . 
.. 608 . 
.. 233 
.. 57 
Mr. Gladstone . 
Mrs. Barron (by err. Yellow 
1884 . 
.. 610 . 
.. 73 
Bellefleur). 
1884 . 
.. 612 . 
.. 89 
Northern Spy . 
1862 . 
.. 185 . 
.. 8 
Oslin . 
1879 .. 
,. 486 . 
.. 41 
Peasgood’s Nonsuch. 
1876 . 
.. 425 . 
.. 181 
Bosemary Busset. 
1867 . 
.. 274 . 
.. 165 
Schoolmaster. 
1882 . 
.. 574 . 
.. 169 
Sops-in-IVine .. 
1882 . 
.. 566 . 
.. 105 
Stirling Castle . 
Stone’s . 
1881 . 
.. 548 . 
.. 153 
1878 . 
.. 467 . 
.. 73 
Tom Putt . 
1884 . 
.. 618 . 
.. 137 
"Warner’s King. 
1882 . 
.. 572 . 
.. 152 
Washington . 
Werder’s Golden Beinette 
1883 . 
.. 588 . 
.. 89 
1882 . 
.. 562 . 
.. 73 
White Winter Calville. 
18,77 . 
.. 410 . 
.. 73 
Winter Hawthornden. 
1863 . 
.. 220 . 
.. 96 
Winter Peach . 
1883 . 
.. 596 . 
.. 153 
Worcester Pearmain . 
1876 . 
.. 420 . 
.. 121 
Apricot Augoumois Hatif ... 
1878 . 
.. 459 . 
.. 9 
Canino Grosso . 
1863 . 
.. 214 . 
.. 48 
Cherry Bedford Prolific . 
1882 . 
.. 558 . 
.. 41 
Belle Agathe. 
1863 . 
.. 212 . 
.. 32 
Bigarreau Gros Coeuret ... 
1882 . 
.. 558 . 
.. 41 
Bigarreau Napoleon. 
1878 . 
.. 465 . 
.. 57 
Bigarreau Noir de Schmidt 
1874 . 
.. 373 . 
.. 121 
Black Tartarian . 
1880 . 
.. 526 . 
.. 169 
Bohemian Black Bigarreau 
1866 . 
.. 261 . 
.. 137 
Early Lyons . 
1875 . 
.. 403 . 
.. 193 
Early Bivers. 
1873 . 
.. 361 . 
.. 265 
Erogmore Early Bigarreau 
1874 . 
.. 373 . 
.. 121 
I'rogmore Late Bigarreau 
1874 . 
.. 382 . 
.. 229 
Joc-o-sot . 
1874 . 
.. 382 . 
.. 229 
Ludwig’s Bigarreau. 
1866 . 
.. 266 . 
.. 257 
Monstrous Heart. 
1873 . 
.. 361 , 
.. 265 
