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eA - On Fruit and Fruit Trees. ~ 85. 
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 -Lobserve that such trees only bear fruit every other 
. year ; and ‘then generally more full and heavily loaded, 
- © than the natural’ strength or substance of the tree can 
» bring to full size and maturity; and such trees when so 
«heavily loaded, are subject to split and break down in 
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storms. 
* The next year the orchard if ever so Lites, produces 
- very little fruit ;—the trees appear to be exhausted, and 
on the decline ;—too great a load of apples also inclines 
them to the di¢ter-rot and other defects. 
By Ihave found it by experience to be a much better 
.. way, tolet my trees grow in the nursery and plant them 
out as natural fruit ;—then when they begin to bear, 
~.°. I go round in the fall and mark such as I disapprove of 
a the fruit, and graft them in the limbs the next spring ; 
» «and such are the best and most steady bearing trees that 
é have : they produce a reasonable equal quantity of ap- 
ples every year, and much larger and faiver than such 
> trees of the same kind of apple, that irregularly bear 
’ every other year. 
* Another advantage by this mode is, that we are still 
- obtaining some new valuable kinds of apples, and when 
_ > © we graft them regularly in the nursery, perhaps often 
cut off as good or better fruit than we place on. 
ae . All our very best kinds of srafted fruits were origi- 
nally natural, and perhaps if this mode was more gene- 
rally pursued, many more new and valuable kinds would 
be discovered. 
Perhaps one of the very finest and most useful apples 
that we now have, is the New England seek no further 
(so called;) the original tree I am informed, grew up in 
