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lent ; others very bad ; and none of them permanent. By 

 feparating the beft varieties, a mod abundant crop was pro- 

 duced ; but its quality was not quite equal to the quantity, 

 and all the difcarded varieties again made their ap^iearance. 

 It appeared to me an extraordinary circumflance, that in th« 

 years 1795 and 1796, when almoft the whole crop of corn la 

 the iftand was blighted, the varieties- thus obtained, and thefe 

 onlv, efcaped, in this neighbourhood, though fown in fevcral 

 different foils and fituations. 



My fuccefs on the apple (as far as long experience and at- 

 tention have enabled mc to judge from the cultivated appear- 

 ance of trees which have not yet borne fruit) has been fully 

 equal to my hopes. But, as the improvement of this fruit 

 was the firlt obje6t of my attention, no probable means of 

 improvement, either from foil or afpeft, were neglefted. The 

 plants, however, which I obtained from my eflbrts to unite 

 the good qualities of two kinds of apple, feem to poflefs the 

 greateft health and luxuriance of growth, as well as the mofl 

 promifing appearance in other refpecls. In fome of thefe^ 

 the cbaracler of the male appears to prevail ; in others, that 

 of the female ; and in others, both appear blended, or neither 

 is diftingiiifliable. Thefe variations, which were often ob- 

 fervable in the feeds taken from a fingle apple, evidently 

 arife from the want of permanence in the charafter of this 

 fruit when raifed from feed. 



The refults of fimilar experiments on another fruit, the 

 grape, were nearly the fame as of thofe on the apple, except 

 that, by mingling the farina of a black and a while grape, 

 juft as the bloflbms of the latter were expanding, I fomc- 

 times obtained plants, from the fame berry, fo diflimilar, 

 that I had good reafon to believe them the produce of fuper- 

 fcetation. By taking off the cups, and deftroying the imma- 

 ture male parts, (as in the pea,) I perfeftly lucceedcd in 

 combining the characters of different varieties of this fruit, 

 as far as the changes of form, and autumnal tints, in the 

 leaves of the offspring, will allow me to judge. 



Manv experiments, of the fame kind, were tried on other 

 plants ; but it is fufificient to fay, that all tended to evince, 

 that improved varieties of every fruit aad efcukut plant may 



be 



