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meadow, Ibme fcattered plantations, an acre and 

 a half of garden-ground, and the produ6lion of the? 

 Peach and Ncdtarine. 



iThe improvement of the former has been amply 

 enlarged upon by abler hands. The culture of 

 the latter Teems to have been either little attended 

 to, or imperfeflly underftood. That trees, with 

 Ikilful management, will produce fruits fuperior in 

 fize, beauty, and flavour, to thofe of the lame 

 fpecies in' an indifi^erent ftate of culture, is a fadb 

 too well known to be controverted. When wc 

 meet with aqueous infipidity, where vinous juices 

 (hould prevail^ our climate is condemned as un- 

 favourable, and the ill confequences of our own 

 mifcondu6l, negligence, or ignorance, are attributed 

 to its want of benignity. Bad foils, and wet fea- 

 Ibns, make indeed great difference in the flavour 

 of their productions ; but the former may be cor- 

 redled, and the latter fo feldom happens in the ex- 

 treme, that nine years out of ten, I truft we can 

 produce both, the peach and neflarine within this 

 kingdom, equal, if not fuperior, in quality to the 

 boafted produce of our neighbours on the continent. 



I dare not rifk an aflertion fo opppfite to the ge- 

 neral -opinion of my countrymen, (who think they 

 muft travel fouthwards to tafle thefe fruits in per- 



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