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34- Catjhead. Very large, quick, pleafant flavour- 

 ed, valuable for fauce. 



35, The Claret Wine, Middle fized, handfome 

 fruit, juicy, but very auflere, can only be valuable 

 in mixture for cider. 



36, Stone Pippin. Middle fized, firm, good cider 

 fruit. 



Art. XXXIV. 



A charaBcriJlick account of twenty-nine forts 

 of Apples^ from Mr. J. N. Mouse, nurfery-man, 



ofNezvent. 



Sir, 



I HAVE fent you a hamper of fruit, and wifli I 

 could have done it better. We have great num- 

 bers of other excellent cider fruits, but the old forts 

 as the Golden Pippin, Redjlreak, Redmufs, Woodcock, 

 and Haglode Crab, bear very fparingly; the trees are 

 old and decayed, and young trees grafted vs?ith thefc 

 fruits fucceed very indifferently: they very foon can- 

 ker and die, but I cannot tell from what caufe; many 

 think it is for want of a frefli fupply of grafts from 

 Normandy, &c. If any gentleman of the Society can 

 procure grafts of the bed fort of fruits of that coun- 

 try, about the month of February or March, I wilj 

 have them grafted on young thriving (locks. I pro- 

 cured 



