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orchards in North-western Pennsylvania show 

 very little fruit. Some young orchard, favorably 

 situated, presents an occasional exception ; and 



I have not eaten any fruit of the Le Conte 

 pear, but I may bear witness to its rapid 

 growth. I had given to me some grafts of it, 



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the Northern Spy apple, producing a moderate sent from Georgia, towards the close of winter, 

 crop among trees that tliis year have yielded They were buried in my grapery for over two 

 nothing, shows the bene'it of its late period of months, and were somewhat shrivelled by keep- 

 blossoming, ing. I cut off a small Seckel pear, and put two 



