This section is from the book "The Gardener's Monthly And Horticulturist V27", by Thomas Meehan. See also: Four-Season Harvest: Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year Long.
At a pomological exhibition (apple show, they call it in the Old World) at Exeter, in England, a report says that in class twenty-five, six dishes, five fruits each, Sir T. D, Acland, Bart., was first, the sorts being Doyenne du Cornice, weighing 5 lbs. 2 ozs.; Pitmaston Duchess, 6 lbs. 10 ozs., the two heaviest being 1 lb. 9 ozs. each. Both these sorts were, Mr. Garland said, from pyramid trees. The collection also contained Easter Beurre, Glout Morceau, and Winter Nelis, one of the latter weighing 10 ozs.
 
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