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On Fruit and Fruit Trees. 
Read June 13th, 1809. 
Stockport, Wayne County, April 5th, 1809. 
For the Philadelphia Society for promoting Agricul- 
ture &e. 
Gentlemen, 
It is with pleasure that I see your publication* of the 
21st, last Month, requesting answers to sundry queries 
respecting the cultivation of fruit trees. 
* The following publication is alluded to : 
The agricultural society of Philadelphia, desirous to collect 
facts on the subject of fruit and fruit trees, will be much 
obliged by answers to any or all of the following queries. As 
their object is to obtain and promulgate information relative 
to fruit and fruit trees, the best adapted to our climate and 
circumstances, they hope those of their fellow citizens, who 
have experience in their culture, will favour them with their 
assistance in a design of general utility. 
1. What kind of fruits are the greatest and most certaiti 
bearers ? / 
2. Which are those coming soonest to perfection, and times 
of blooming and ripening of those within your knowledge? 
3. Which are the hardiest, and most easily propagated ; 
and the different modes of culture ; and the times and man- 
ner of planting and propagating, both as respects season and 
state of sap? 
