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a fence row, and first began to bear during the Ameri- 
can revolution. 
The best mode that I have AC ee to preserve x 
winter apples, is to let them hang on the trees as long | 
as safe from frosts; in that time such as are most for- 
ward to rot will have generally fallen off ; then to gather 
them carefully without bruising, and spread them for ~ 
some days, to dry thoroughly, in an airy chamber :— 
then carefully assort and pack them in casks in a cellar, 
where they will not freeze :—in the spring after the 
freezing weather is past, spread them again in the cham- 
ber, and let them have plenty of air; during the time the 
apple trees are in blossom, they will rot abundantly more 
than at any other; and must often be carefully assorted 
and. spread very thin: such as survive this their pro- 
bationary period, until after the fall of the blossoms, in-. 
cline to wither a little, and keep without much more 
rotting. 
I have had some of my finest and largest New Eng- 
land seek no furthers, sound.and delicious on the 15th 
of September ;—at which time the same trees on which 
they grew, were again loaded with another crop of the 
same kind of apples, sufficiently grown and matured © 
for common use. 
Thus with care and attention, the Becca: farmer © 
may supply his family with green apples every day in 
the year.—I have done it on this farm, where about 20 
years ago, I cut down the first tree.—Most of the farms 
through the country, abound with great numbers of - 
scrubby natural apple trees around the fences, which 
the owners consider of little value; were they trimmed 
up, and grafted, they would be of great value, and bear 
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