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very good effects; but there are feveral forts of ap- 
ples whofe fuperiority is already well known, the 
multiplication of which would be very defirable; a 
{mall premium offered to the nurferyman, who 
fhould in any ycar graft the greateft number of thefe 
forts, (not lefs than a certain number) would perhaps 
tend more fpeedily to correct the fruitings of or- 
chards, than any other means; for here (as in the 
rotten boroughs) the demon of corruption begins 
hiswork. The objeét of the nurferyman is in ge- 
neral to take fuch grafts as make the moft rapid 
fhoots; and my nurferyman, in common with the 
reft, laughs at the idea of my fcrupuloufly attend- 
‘ing to the excellence of the forts; thefe grafts are 
therefore often from the worft forts of apples, (for ill 
weeds grow apace.) But the honour and the amount 
of a {mall premium, which would defray the ex- 
pence of grafting a great number of {tocks, would. 
probably very much counteract this practice, and by 
laying the axe te the root of the tree, one part of 
the fociety’s object would be immediately obtained. 
I am, dear fir, 
Your much obliged friend, 
R. PEW. 
CX 
