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4th. I was in Lancaster about the 10th October, and 
obtained some valuable cuttings from my friend Timo- 
thy Matlack Esqr. I took them home carefully, and laid 
them under a sod, as I had done the pomme roi: at graft- 
ing time I took them up, they all appeared rotten in the 
bark, and I could not prevail on one to grow. » 
5th. The grafts of my Townsend apples were cut and 
sent me in the month of June, after the leaves were 
-nearly of full size; they were withered in conveying up- 
wards of 130 miles; I grafted them the latter part of 
June in trees in full leaf, and yet all grew and are yet 
growing. 
6th. In June last year, for experiment, after the leaves 
were about fully grown, I cut off and grafted a large tree 
in the limbs, taking my grafts out of the orchard also in 
full leaf: I had 11 stocks, and set 22 grafts, of 22 dif- 
ferent kinds of apple; and never had grafts to grow 
better. 
7h. About the middle of last March, I was in the 
city of Albany, and called on my friend Peter Yeates 
Esquire, for a variety of cuttings from his far famed 
fruits: he gave them cheerfully, I wrapped them up 
in the most careful manner, took them home, and buried 
them in my cellar as formerly ; at grafting time they all 
appeared to be decaying under the bark, I set them with 
all possible care, but only succeeded in two apple grafts, 
As to this season it hath been the most cold and wet 
ever known; attended with heavy fogs and dews: our 
grass and oats grew very large; wheat better than we 
expected: of Indian corn I presume there will be none 
to ripen, and even plaister of Paris weuld not bring it 
forward. 
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