IQO METHOD Of PRODUCING NEW AND EARLY FRUITS, 



life, though not the things themselves; it has placed the 

 raw material within his reach ; but has left the preparation 

 and improvement of it to his own skill and industry, Every 

 plant and animal, adapted to his service, is made susceptible 

 of endless changes, and, as far as relates to his use, of almost 

 endless improvement. Variation is the constant attendant 

 on cultivation, both in the animal and vegetable world ; and 

 in each the offspring are constantly seen, in a greater or less 

 degree, to inherit the character of the parents from which 

 • they spring, ' 



"Fruits best In No experienced gardener c^n be ignorant, that every spe-? 

 situation ^^and ^^^^ ^^ ^'""^^ acquires its greatest state of perfection in some 

 management, peculiar soils and situation.-, and under some similar mode 

 of culture: the selection of a proper soil and situation must 

 therefore be the first object of the improver's pursuit; and 

 nothing should be neglected which can add to the size, or 

 improve the flavour of the fruit from which it is intended to 

 Hence new va- propagate. Due attention to these points will in almost all 

 cases be found to comprehend all that is necessary to insure 

 the introduction of new varieties.of fvait, of equal merit with 

 those from which they spring ; but the improver, who has to 

 adapt his productions to the cold and unsteady climate of 

 Hardiness and Britain, has still many difficulties to contend with ; he has 

 desirable^" "^ ^^ combine hardiness, energy of character, and early matu- 

 rity, with the improvements of high cultivation. Nature has, 

 however, in some measure, pointed out the path he is to pur- 

 sue; and, if it be followed with patience and industry, no 

 obstacles will be found, which may not be either removed, 

 or passed over. 

 Plants carried If two plants of the vine, or other tree, of similar habits, 

 to a hot o» cold Qj, even if obtained from cuttinjjs of the same tree, were 



climate and -, . ' V • 



brought back, placed to vegetate, dunng several successive seasons, m very 

 different climates ; if the one were planted on the banks of 

 the Rhine, and the other on those of the Nile, each would 

 adapt its habits to the climate in which it was placed ; and 

 if both were subsequently brought, in early spring, into a 

 climate similar to that of Italy, the plant which had adapted 

 its habit-s to a cold climate would instantly vegetate, whilst 

 the other would remain perfectly torpid. Precisely the same 



Hothouses. thing occui*s in the hothouses of this country, where a plant 



accustomed 



