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pose queries, the answers to which, would include all — 
the useful information the subject would ‘admit. 
For upwards of the last 30 years, of my life, I have 
_taken great pleasure in paying attention to the raising 
of fruit trees; and if any observations that I have been 
able to make, prove of service to my fellow citizens, I 
shall have a pleasure in communicating them. 
I shall not attempt a regular answer to your queries ; 
yet pay some regard to your arrangement, confining 
myself principally to the apple tree. ‘aes 
I consider the apple the greatest and most certain 
kind to bear ; yet not raised so soon as a peach tree by 
perhaps 10 years, before they produce much fruit. 
I consider apples under all their varieties, the length 
of time they may be preserved, and the many uses 
made of them, not only the most valuable of all our 
kind of fruits; but perhaps of more real value to the 
people in general than all the other fruits. 
The apple is the hardiest kind of fruit tree, and the 
easiest raised of any that 1 am acquainted with; yet 
perhaps they require the most time to raise. 
I haye planted several orchards, and have not expe- 
rienced any material difference in my success as to their 
growing well; whether planted in the fall or spring, 
or at any time in the winter, provided there is no frost 
in the ground: I believe any time when there are no 
leaves on the young trees, will answer equally well to 
plant them. 
This idea of transplanting fruit trees at any time 
when they are destitute of leaves, is not an original dis- 
covery of mine; but was communicated to me by let- 
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