. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. ember to the end of the year. Perhaps ofall culinary Apples the best and most useful is theStirling Castle (p. 7, fig. 18), free bearer, andwell adapted for bush culture on the Paradise fruits are of medium size, pale green in colour,and the flesh white and juicy. It comes into use inAugust. Reinette de Caux (fig. ig) is a FrenchApple, but little known in this country—but it iswell worth growing on account of its valuable late-keeping qualities. It much resembles the old DutchMignonn
. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. ember to the end of the year. Perhaps ofall culinary Apples the best and most useful is theStirling Castle (p. 7, fig. 18), free bearer, andwell adapted for bush culture on the Paradise fruits are of medium size, pale green in colour,and the flesh white and juicy. It comes into use inAugust. Reinette de Caux (fig. ig) is a FrenchApple, but little known in this country—but it iswell worth growing on account of its valuable late-keeping qualities. It much resembles the old DutchMignonne, and comes into use late in spring, whengood Apples are veiy scarce. The Pear Van Mons Leon le Clerc (p. 6, fig. 16)is a remarkably large, handsome, and delicious variety,ripe in November. Doyenne du Comice (fig. 17) isthe finest of all the October Pears, being large in size,remarkably rich in flavour, and the tree a good (p. 7, fig. 20) is a very fine variety, ofBelgian origin—being large in size, of handsome form,and very delicious flavour, comes into use about the. Fig. 4.—PLuni. beginning ot November. Beurri Hardy (fig. 21) isone of the best November Pears, though but littleknown. It is a beautiful and handsome fruit—ofdehcious flavour, but is not a great bearer. The four varieties of nuts illustrated on p. 9 (fig. 22)are the Red-skinned Filbert, a free bearing andexcellent flavoured variety, which produces itselliptic acute shaped nuts in clusters, and has a husklonger than the nut; Princess Royal, a comparativelynew seedling, raised by the late Mr. R. Webb, inwhich the husk is as long as the nut, and the latterof fine size ; the well-known Cosford, which fruits inpairs ; and Empress Eugenie, another of Mr. Webbsfine seedlings, in which the husk is shorter than thenuts, which are borne in clusters. PRUNING. To be a good pvuner requires instruction in thefirst instance from a practical man, and in the nextplace considerable experience, with sense
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