. The Gardeners' Chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. op. I have Been a heavier set of Apples, butthese will nevertheless be a large and fine crop. R. , Tyninghame, Prestonkirk. East Lothian.—Pearsand Apricotsare not a heavycrop, but Apples, Plums, and Cherries are abundantand good. Lord Suffield, Keswick Codlin, WarnersKing, Stirling Castle, Hawthornden, BlenheimOrange, Coxs Orange, King of the Pippins, andWorcester Pearmain are amongst the best of theApples. The small fruits are an extra heavy crop,except Black Currants. All other sorts,
. The Gardeners' Chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. op. I have Been a heavier set of Apples, butthese will nevertheless be a large and fine crop. R. , Tyninghame, Prestonkirk. East Lothian.—Pearsand Apricotsare not a heavycrop, but Apples, Plums, and Cherries are abundantand good. Lord Suffield, Keswick Codlin, WarnersKing, Stirling Castle, Hawthornden, BlenheimOrange, Coxs Orange, King of the Pippins, andWorcester Pearmain are amongst the best of theApples. The small fruits are an extra heavy crop,except Black Currants. All other sorts, especiallyStrawberries and Gooseberries, are plentiful. , Broxmouth Park Gardens, Dunbar, Fifeshirb.—The crop of fruit in this district isextra heavy, and with recent rains the fruit willattain its normal size. The Apples are especiallyheavy, with the exception of Coxs Orange andBlenheim Pippins on walls and standards, andEibston Pippin is thin on wall trees. Denyers Vic-toria Plum is extra good, and the Damsons are theheaviest crop ever seen here—at least, within the. Fig. 29.—tchthatchewia isatidea: flowers rosy- lilac, and fragrant,(see p. 150) we had little or no frost, only spells of sunlesscold weather, which would account for much of theblossom not setting, and again the long droughtlater on had an equally bad effect, causing many ofthe fruits to drop off of such reliable sorts as StirlingCastle, Ecklinville, Potts Seedling, Warners KiDg,&c. We have an over-abundant crop of Apples, andthe fruit is swelling fast. We never had such finecrops of Gooseberries and Strawberries as thisseason, the rain just coming in the nick of time tosave the crop. John Cairns, The Hirsel Gardens,Coldstream, The fruit crops are in general, in this dis-trict, very good, although slightly thinned by 6° offrost on June 13. Cherries have been the heaviestcrop I have had in five years. Gooseberries aresimply an enormous crop, many of the bushes lyingquite flat on the
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