95D ^^ FKUIT TRHES. 



\v»H happen in about twelve, fifteen, or eighteen years. Mf 

 Jriend Mr. Knight, who undoubtedly is the firft in actual 

 ^^'^ertious for procuring ihefe happily acquired new varieties, 

 has had two plants bear fruit at fix years old, and one at five. 

 'J'iie cider-countries have ofi'ered feveral premiums for pro- 

 curing new varieties, and (bme with good effeft. Premiums 

 have been given both (o Mr. Knight and Mr. Alban. 



When the new variety is to be raifed Irom a valuable ad- 

 mired apple, I (hould recommend the placing thefe feeds iiv 

 a garden-pot, filled with mould from an old melon-bed ; 

 carrying the pot into a retired (ituation near the water, and 

 giving attention to run the plants to as large a tize us is con- 

 venient within eighteen months. W ilh this view, the pot 

 Ihould be placed in the green-houfe the firft winter ; and 

 when the plants are afterwards to be let out in the fpots, 

 tlicy /hould not be placed under the drip of trees, or mucix 

 cxpofed to the winds. 



Two inftances have been mentioned, the improved crab, 

 and moft admired apple; but prudence fays, try all forts, 

 and fomething probably will arife ; and the procefs is attended 

 with little trouble or expence to a perlon who conftantly re- 

 iides in the country ; yet, after all this fcientific care, the 

 apple may want flavour, and be in other refpects nothing 

 better than a common wilding. 



It is an undoubted fad, and worthy of obfervation, that 



all the ditferent trees of the lame variety have a wonderful 



tendency to fimilarity of appearance among themfelves ; and 



that llie parent flock, and all engrafted from it, have a far 



greater relemblance to each other, that can be found in any 



part of the animal creation ; and this habit does not vary to 



any extent of age. 



Fails refpeaing -^^ ^" encouragement in attempting to increafe the number 



engrafted fruits, of new valuable fruits, we can prove that the golden pippin 



'^'iil'eQcI,lc. '^ "^^^^® Englith. The red-ftreak, a leedling of Hereford- 



fliire, if not raifed, yet was firfl brought into notice by Lord m 

 Scudamore, and was for a long time called Scudamore's 

 Crab. The Stire Apple was accidentally raifed in the Foreft 

 of Dean, in Gloucefterfliire, and took the name of Forcfi Stire. 

 The cider made from this apple was the ftrongeft the country 

 ever produced, according to any living record. The Haglo- 

 crab, the befl cider fruit now remaining, was difcovered 



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