ON FRUIT TREES. ^ 227 



iner,* when, after having announced the contents of this Paper, 

 I added, " Jliould tliefe obfervations be found fiijiciently conclu- 

 five ;" for, if there (hould be aftronomers who would rather 

 explain the phenomena of a fmall ftar appearing to revolve 

 round Caftor by the hypolhefis we have laft examined, they 

 may certainly claim the right of aflenting to what appears to 

 them moil probable. 



(To be continued.) 



XII. 



On ^ Nature of the Varieties of Engrafted Fruit-TreeSi with a 

 Plan for increafing the Number of New valuable Fruits, By 

 T. S. Dyot Bucknall, E/^. M. Pf. 



To Mr. CHARLES TAYLOR. 



SIR, . - , 



»30iVIE friends have requeued that I would introduce another Introdu£lion, 

 Paper on the Nature of the valuable Varieties of engrafted 

 Fruits, as they are of opinion that the EiTay in the 17th Vo- 

 lume of the Tranfa6lions of the Society is not fufficiently ex- 

 tended for a fubjed fo important to the Fruit-growers, and 

 thofe interefted in the productions of Fruits. As a proof of 

 ray willingnefs to make the Orchardift as perfedt as I can, I 

 beg you to prefent my compliments to the Society, with t|ie 

 following elucidations. 



This is a fubjed in rural oeconomy which ought to be much Importance* 

 belter underftood than it is, in order to enable the planters to 

 judge of the forts proper to be planted, either as an article of 

 pleafure, profit, or recreation ; as much of the credit of the 

 plantation muft arife f«jm judicioufly choofing Trees of the 

 beft, new, or middled -aged forts, and not of the old worn- 

 out varieties, which latter cannot, in the planting of Orchards 

 in common fituations, ever form valuable Trees , and muft end 

 in the difappointment of the planter. 



Engrafted Fruits, I have before faid, and I now repeat, are Grafted fruits ate 

 not permanent. Every one of the kaft refleaion muft fee that not permwient. 



• See Phil. Trans, for 1802, page 486. 

 t Sgciety of Arts, xx. 144. 



Q 2 there 



