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its ftrait and fmooth-barkcd ftems, and ingrafted 

 thcnn with fcions from various pear-trees, which 

 rather more generally fucceeded than th^ apple fcioni 

 in the virfl: experiment; and in die courfe of the 

 fummcr of that year, fome of them fhot from 24 to 

 40 inches. Thefuccefs of thefe excited me to a far* 

 ther trial in the fpring of this year, and with equal 

 fuccefs in their certainty of taking, though they arc 

 not quite equal to the luxuriancy of the fummet 

 fhoot in their predeceflbrs of the former year. Thofc 

 firft ingrafted have improved on their former years 

 vigour, in the additional length of their Ihoot, and 

 increafed thicknefs of their ftem, while the fize of 

 their fpurs indicates, to my conception, a probability 

 of throwing out fome bloflbms in the enfuing 

 fpring. I may remark that one of the firft ingrafted, 

 I removed to the fide of a wall, which removal it 

 fcarcely felt; as the firft fpring fhoot was thirty-eight 

 inches, and the next year's fhoot meafured twenty- 

 nine inches; and this fum of five feet feven inches 

 from a white-thorn, that after many years growth 

 had not fhot in bole four feet from the ground. I 

 am therefore perfuaded, on the foundation of thefe 

 premifes, that in any future inclofure of land, pecu- 

 liarly thofe inclofures that may be in "contiguity to a 

 habitation, hedges formed of either or both thefe 

 fpecies of thorns grafted, (and better fences of quick 

 K 3 growth. 



