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diitribute gratis to farmers and cottagers who ap- 

 plied' and engaged to cultivate them ; and that the 

 application muft be made either verbally or in 

 writing by a certain day, fpecifying the number the 

 party wifhes to have. And when the grafts are 

 ready, a fecond advertifement might give notice for 

 each perfon who has applied to call or fend for the 

 proportion allotted to him. 



If the fociety alfo recommended to their corre- 

 fpondents and other gentlemen, a fimilar difpofal of 

 good grafts, round their rcfpe&ive neighbourhoods, 

 I fbould not doubt but in a very few years every 

 county would be plentifully fupplied with the bed 



apples. 



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



RICHARD SAMUEL. 



[N. B. The fubftancc of this letter Is of great importance 

 to the nation - t for it muft be univerfally acknowleged 

 that the apple is the firft of fruits, as an article of family 

 conftimption, if not ns a luxury. In its different applica- 

 tions for cyder, for drefling as food, and for eating in its 

 natural flate, its flavour is of great c'onfcquencc to our 

 .lure, and perhaps of forjte to our health. For it is not 

 cafily fuppofablc, that a rough acrid cyder is equally whole- 

 ami plcafant fort, to a' s j — 

 ■ni.l, and . 

 will pple-trees, t the 

 th publick attention to promote the 

 of the fineft fortf, as at once cheap, wliolcfome, 

 K j and 



