March  22,  1900. 
JOURNAL  OF  HORTICULTURE  AND  COTTAGE  GARDENER. 
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Notes  on  Winter  Apples. 
B  [j-The  stock  of  sound  dessert  and  culinary  Apples  is  in  manv  gardens 
very  low  atj  the  present  time.  This  is  not  brought  about  by  any 
deficiency  of  varieties  that  will  keep  until  this  period,  but  is  rather 
the  result  in  some  instances  of  the  crops  being  light  from  the 
■visitation  of  spring  frosts  last  year,  and  again,  that  in  many  gardens 
Gralting  is  the  quickest  means  of  transforming  early  or  midseason 
into  late  fruiting  sorts,  and  it  is  just  as  desirable  to  purchase  grafts 
from  the  nursery  as  trees  when  transformation  is  the  object  in  view. 
Much  more  could  be  done  than  is  at  present  effected  by  grafting,  but  the 
gardener  in  charge  is  not  always  allowed  to  exercise  his  own  discretion 
in  thus  dealing  with  the  established  stock.  A  wide  selection  of 
varieties  for  late  use  is  neither  available  nor  necessary.  By  available, 
IS  meant  in  ordinary  cases  or  in  small  private  gardens.  Messrs. 
Bunyard  &  Co.,  from  their  thatched  fruit  roo'Ti  at  Maidstone,  can 
65.— DENDllOBIUM  FALLENS 
{See  page  239.) 
too  few  late  ones  are  planted.*  It  is  no  unconjcnon  experience  to  find  in 
gardens  an  over-abundant  supply  of  autuinc  and  early  winter  Apples, 
but  less  thought  is  given  to  the  useful  late  oi38  in  planting.  Nor  is  it 
always  an  easy  matter  for  a  gardener  to  mak  radical  changes  in  this 
respect,  involving  as  it  would  the  loss  of  frui  for  consumption  at  some 
period  of  the  season,  whether  replanting  or  grafting  is  adopted.  When 
a  garden  is  furnished  with  good-sized  trees, 
cares  to  see  them  removed,  and  their 
which  require  some  years  to  attain  to  a 
gardener  nor  owner 
with  young  trees 
size. 
easily  retain  the  midwinter  sorts  for  spring  use ;  this,  of  course  is  an 
exceptional  case  that  is  not  in  many  instances  within  the  means  of 
the  private  gardener  to  imitate.  Messrs.  Bunyard’s  exhibits  in  the 
spring  months  are  most  remarkable,  and  have  puzzled  many  in  the 
freshness  of  the  on t-o '’-season  varieties  that  are  shown. 
In  former  times,  and  even  now,  there  existed  a  desire  to  make  the 
collection  of  fruit  trees  as  exhaustive  in  variety  as  possible  ;  certainly 
this  could  not  have  been  because  it  is  necessary  for  maintaining  a 
supply  for  cooking  or  dessert.  This  latter  is  rendered  infinitely  easier 
