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thirteen,  I  shall  name  Alfriston,  as  this  is  undoubtedly  a  splendid  Apple 
in  every  respect.  Some  persons  say  in  strong  soil  it  is  liable  to  canker  ; 
that  is  not  my  experience,  as  it  is  growing  in  such  a  soil  as  that  named. 
The  fruit  keeps  well  until  March,  and  is  of  undoubted  excellence. — 
E.  Molyneux. 
of  each  of  Lord  Grosvenor,  Bismarck  and  Bramley’s,  with  a  few  Warner’s 
King  for  dumplings,  and  you  will  have  as  many  of  the  best  cookiDg 
Apples  as  you  please,  whatever  your  soil  may  be,  from  August  till  May,’’  1 
should  have  had  nothing  to  say.  These  are  all  varieties,  with  large 
foliage  and  vigorous  growth,  that  will  bear  anywhere.  If  I  made  a  change 
Fig.  78.— PLUMIERIA  BICOLOR. 
Me.  Picker  asks  for  criticima  on  his  list  of  cooking  Apples.  I  will 
offer  mine.  The  first  would  be  that  he  has  omitted  the  best— Bramlcy’s 
Seedling.  The  next  would  be  that,  though  he  may  be  modest  in  com¬ 
parison  with  others  in  limiting  himself  to  thirteen  varieties,  he  has  yet 
got  three  or  four  times  too  many.  If  he  had  said,  “  Grow  large  quantities 
it  would  be  with  Bismarck,  and  there  would  beany  amount  of  alternatives, 
as  it  would  be  wanted  only  to  fill  the  gap  at  the  time  when  such  a  gap  is 
easiest  filled,  between  the  finishing  of  Lord  Grosvenor  in  October,  and 
the  commencement  of  Bramley’s  in  December.  In  a  good  season  I  should 
have  had  enough  of  Blenheim  Orange,  grown  for  dessert,  to  fill  this  gap. 
