On Apple Trees and Grafting. 99 
N. B. The appearance of the apple trees that I totally 
stripped of bark last year, is not such this summer as to 
encourage me ina large practice; yet they are both 
growing, have apples on and a new bark, but the leaves 
are more of a yellow than the other trees. I have freely 
devoted them for a fair experiment, and shall watch 
them closely. 
Thave seen ina New York newspaper, an imperfect 
advertisement of a book, teaching a sure and easy mode 
to make the limbs of the apple tree grow as certain as 
a tree with roots. 
If this discovery hath really been made, I consider 
it the most valuable of any of the present age. 
S. Preston. 
such accidents here, or cultivation in the hands of our sava- 
ges, who have not multiplied instances of skill in that way, 
in other parts of our continent, have produced the species 
mentioned by our correspondent, we are not disposed to be- 
lieve, without farther proois than those he has (not uninterest- 
ingly) exhibited. There is, nevertheless, no zmpossibility in 
the circumstance. We have the crab or wilding, in as great 
plenty, and variety, in its native character, as can be found in 
any country. Perhaps the novelty of the suggestion, may ope- 
rate on our doubts. We shall be obliged by information of 
any other facts, if any there be, on this subject, from other 
parts of our country. 
