DEDICATED 



TO THE MEMORY 



OF A NAMESAKE OF 



A MEMBER OF MY OWN COLLEGE 



RALPH AUSTEN 



who wrote a. Treatise on Frtiit Trees in 1653, which many 

 refused to buy, believing it similar to his other book on the 

 Spiritual! Use of an Orchard, described as "all divinity, 

 and nothing therein of the practice part of Gardening." 



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