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for future bearings; thus deftroying mofs probably 

 better than by any other means, and counteracting 

 the effects in fome meafure of cold and blighting 

 winds, and fuch late frofty nights as thofe of the 

 firft and fecond of laft month* 



I am, Sir, your's, &c. 



June 3, 1786. C. GULLETT. 



P. S. It feems fuperfluous to add, that the fame 

 procefs is applicable, and promifes to be equally 

 advantageous, to all other fruit trees, if fuitably 

 adapted in point of time and other circumftances. 



Article XIII. 

 Succefs of an Experiment of fumigating an Orchard. 



Sir, Nov. 23, 1786. 



THE foregoing letter was drawn up on the day 

 it bears date, the 3d of June laft, and was 

 intended to have been communcated at that time, 

 but a diffidence of publilhing my theoretical ideas, 

 unaccompanied by facts, prevented; and accord- 

 ingly it hath lain by ever fince, and fo would have 

 continued but for die following information. 



Since 



