ORIGIN OF THE APPLE TREE. 27 



"When the new variety is to be raised from a valuable 

 admired apple, I would recommend the placing these seeds in 

 a garden pot, filled with mould from an old melon bed; car- 

 rying the pot into a retired situation near the water, and giv- 

 ing attention to rear the plants to as large a size as is conve- 

 nient within eighteen months. With this view, the pot should 

 be placed in the green-house the first winter, or in a sheltered 

 position ; and, when the plants are afterwards to be set out in 

 the spots, they should not be placed under the drip of trees, 

 or much exposed to the winds. 



" Two instances have been mentioned, the improved crab, 

 and most admired apple; but prudence says, try all sorts, 

 and something probably will arise; and the process is attended 

 with little trouble or expense to a person who constantly re- 

 sides in the country; yet, after all this scientific care, the ap- 

 ple may want flavor, and be in other respects nothing better 

 than a common wilding. 



" It is an undoubted fact, and worthy of observation, that 

 all the different trees of the same variety have a wonderful 

 tendency to similarity of appearance among themselves ; and 

 that the parent stock, and all engrafted from it, have a far 

 greater resemblance to each other than can be found in any 

 part of the animal creation ; and this habit does not vary to 

 any extent of age. 



" As an encouragement in attempting to increase the num- 

 ber of new and valuable fruits, we can prove that the Golden 

 Pippin is native English. The Red Streak, a seedling of Here- 

 fordshire, if not raised, yet was first brought into notice by 

 Lord Scudamore, and was for a long time called Scudamores 

 crah. The Stire apple was accidentally raised in the forest of 

 Dean, in Gloucestershire, and took the name of Forest Stire. 

 The cider made from this ap'ple was the strongest the country 

 ever produced, according to any living record. The Hagloe- 

 crab, the best cider fruit now remaining, was discovered in 

 the parish of Ecloe, on the banks of the Severn, and about 

 sixty or seventy years ago; many sciors were taken from this 

 tree by Mr. Belamy, and engrafted on seedling stocks about 

 Ross. These are now grown old ; and to ascertain the age 



