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vanccd, and from long obfervation can venture. Sir, 

 to afliire you, that a due fouth afped, hitherto 

 thought abfolutely neceflary to bring thefe fruits to 

 perfedion, often proves injurious to our choiceft 

 peaches, and caufes our ne(5larine trees to caft their 

 fruit unripe. 



In cold wet fummers, France may have the ad- 

 vantage of us, but in warm and dry ones, I am 

 confidently perfuaded to the contrary. The un- 

 ufual heat of the 2d, 3d, and 4th of Auguft 1788, 

 afFe^led my fruit on the fouth and fouth-weft walls, 

 in fuch a manner as to alter its very nature, fo that 

 the Montabon, the Noblefs, and other peaches, 

 ufually juicy, rich and vinous, became in fuch a,f- 

 pe6ls, that fummer, dry and mealy. Hence I ra- 

 tionally draw this conclufion, that our climate, how- 

 ever it may have been rafhly condemned, is more 

 appofite to the production of thefe fruits, than any 

 other whatfoever, unlefs perhaps fome di(lri6ts of 

 Perfia, to which they are indigenous, may prove an 

 exception. Above thirty years experience and clofe 

 attention to their culture, warrant fuch a conclufion. 



The unprecedented fuccefs with which my la- 

 bours have' been crowned, induces my friends to 

 be Iblicitous, that the knowledge I have obtained, 

 may not die with me. In compliance with their 



requeft. 



