Apples for Home Use.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XX, Issue 2082, 17 June 1887, Page 3

Apples for Home Use.

The following varieties of apples are very suitable for those who can ouiv grow two or three trees of each. Geurrally they are particularly fruitful, and »ro among the best apples grown. K denotes that the variety is useful for kitchen. D. for dessert The Queen. j’ a garden apple, large and handsome. Wealthy, KX) , fruit round, handsome, fine brown-red cheek ; this is an early bearer, for trees in the second season of growth, and of quite neat form, wuaont the aid of pruning are loaned with fruit. Cot’s orange, D a pcrf'Ci Tery'Trmtfor; Grcnadi -r, * grand thing for garden or farm, a heavy and constant cropper, the full grown fruit, a foot in circumference. Cardinal, K D., in the way of Nonsuch, tender fleshed. King of the Pippins, K.D.; trees of tliis in second season ma ; ; more than five feet. Calville Ma gre, K., is a capital firuit for late use, -ud should be in every domestic collection ; it is naturally a shy bearer ,• Hubbard's Pearman, D., is the perfection of a garden tree, Irish Peach, D., an nglv beauty of incomjjarable quality, tiie . flesh tender ; this bears at the joints at the shoots, and the clever jieople who prune it simply bestow their time in suppressing the fruit. Kerry Pippin, D., another tender fleshed favourite, “ small and early,” but better than weak tea; the fruitfulness of buslies and espaliers is astonishing, and suggests to one that the world might, if it liked, be covered over with apples. Scarlet Nonpareil, D,, is snjierb on a proper garden stock, and the best way to grow this tender fleshed and delicious apple is as an unpruued bush. EcUinvihe, K., is one of the best for profit, the little . rees are little mouutains offruit. Summer Golden Pippin, also known as Yellow lugestre, D., is remarkably productive, and makes a perfect bush on a proiier stock. Gascoyne a Scarlet, K.D., has the beauty of a pcarli, and is one of the most noted of Kentish apples ; the fruit conies chiefly at the points of the shoots, consequently prun n: i.-, a sure way to promote barrenness. Margil, I)., has the flavour of Bibstou, a fruitful tree, bearing early. Lord Suffield, K.; this apple appears to have Ikxii designed by nature for proving capabilities of a good Paradise stock but it suits a stony soil better than one .tiding to clay or damp loam. Lady Sude; y, D., also known as Jacob’s Straw ;erry, is beyond doubt the finest new d.ssirt apple amongst many that havj i—eu lately introduced; its beauty and fr ritfulness give it claim to a first place ;u any collection, large or small.