WEtHOD eF PR0DUC'I??G KEW AND EARLY FRUITS. lf)3 



rleties of tbisfiuit, from whicli I wished to propagate, were 

 -trained to a south wall, till they produced buds which con- 

 t'lined blossoms. Their branches were then, in the suc- 

 ceeding winter, detached from the wall, and removed to as 

 great a distance from it as the pliability of their stems would 

 permit; and in this situation they remained till their blos- 

 soms were so far advanced in the succeeding springs as to 

 be in some danger of injury from frost. The branches were 

 then trained to the wall, where every blossom I suffered to 

 tesnain, soon expanded, and produced fruit. This attained 

 in a few months the most perfect state of maturity ; and the 

 seeds aiforded plants, which have ripened the fruit very con- 

 siderably earlier than other trees, which T raised at the same 

 time, from seeds of the same fruit, which had grc^vn in the 

 orchard. In this experiment the fecundation of the bios- Fruit fecun- 

 soms, of each variety, was produced by the ^^''"^ of ano- J^^^^^J^^^^j^^^'"^ 

 ther kind; from which process, I think, Tobtained, in this, tree. 

 and many similar experiments, an increased vigour and lux- 

 uriance of growth ; but I have no reasons whatever to think 

 that plants thus generated ripen their fruit earlier than others 

 which are obtained by the common methods of culture. I 

 must therefore attribute the early maturity of those I have " 

 tlescrlbed to the other peculiar circumstances tinder which 

 the fruit and seeds ripened, from which they sprang. 



I obtained, by the same mode of culture, many new va- Siberian cmb 

 tieties, which are the offspring of the Siberian crab and the pie combined 

 richest of our apples, with the intention of affording fruits t^ produce ci- 

 for the press, which might ripen well in cold and exposed 

 situations. The plants, thus produced, seem perfectly well 

 Calculated, in every respect, to answer the object of the ex- 

 periment, and possess an extraordinary hardness and luxu- 

 riance of growth. The annual shoots of some of them, from 

 iiewly grafted trees in my nursery, the soil of which is by 

 no means rich, exceeded six feet and a half in height, in 

 the last jseason ; and their blossoms seem capable of bearing 

 extremely unfavourable weather without injury. In all the 

 preceding experiments some of the new varieties inherited 

 the character of the male, and others of the female, parent 

 in the greatest degree; and of some varieties of fruit (parti- Variety of th,e 

 cularly the golden pippin) I obtained a better copy, by in- gol^len pippin. 



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