IQS method of producing new and EARtY FRUITS. 



that the plants possess the most perfect degree of health and 

 luxuriance of growth, and that their leaves afford satisfac- 

 tory evidence of the good quality of the future fruit. I am 

 ignorant of the age at which plants of this species become 

 May be capable of producing blossoms j but the rapid changes, in 



bear at 3 or 4 *^^ character of the leaves and growth of my plants, which 

 years old. are now in their third year, induce me to believe, that they 

 will be capable of producing fruit at three or four year* 

 old. 



I shall finish my paper with stating a few conclusions,^ 

 which I have been ^ble to draw \yi the course of many years^ 

 close attention to the subject on which I write. 

 Best mode of New varieties of every species of fruit will generally be 

 T^rieS "^"^ ^^-""^^ obtained by introducing the farina of one variety of 

 fruit into the blossom of another, than by propagating fron» 

 any single kind. When an experiment of this kind rs made, 

 between varieties of different size and character, the farina: 

 of the smaller kind should be introduced into the blossoms 

 of the larger ; for, under these circumstances, I have gene-' 

 i-ally {but with some exceptions) observed a prevalence in 

 fruit of the character of the female parent ; probably owing 

 to the following causes. The seedcoats are generated wholly 

 by the female parent, and these regulate the bulk of the 

 Peachv lobes and plantula ; and I have observed, in raising new va- 



rieties of the peach, that when one stone contained two- 

 Choice of seeds, the plants these afforded were inferior to others. The 

 se«ds. largest seeds, obtained from the finest fruit, and from that 



which ripens most perfectly and most early, should always 

 be selected. It is scarcely necessary to inform the expe- 

 rienced gardener, that it will be necessary to extract the 

 stamina of the blossoms from which he proposes to propa- 

 gate, some days before the farina begins to shed, when he 

 proposes to generate new varieties in the manner I have re- 

 Secdling tree*, commended. When young trees have sprung from the seed, 

 a certain period must elapse before they become capable of 

 bearing fruit, and this period, I believe, cannot be short- 

 Should not be ^ned by any means. Pruning and transplanting are both 

 pruned or injurious ; and no change in the character or merits of the 

 ^^ * future fruit can be effected, during this period, either by 

 manure or culture. The young jilants should be suffered to 



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