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INTRODUCTORY OBSERVATIONS. 



There is probably no part of Rural Economy, 

 which combines in so great a degree the agreeable oc- 

 cupation of the mind with active employment, as the 

 cultivation of fruit-trees, with the other branches of an 

 extensive Orchard establishment: to the man of 

 wealth and leisure, it offers the means of improving 

 and adorning his estate; the scientifick Cultivator 

 will find in it inexhaustible sources of intellectual 

 occupation; while the practical farmer, whose views 

 are limited to objects of certain profit, will be amply 

 remunerated for every expenditure of labour or mo- 

 ney, by the immediate comfort, and eventual emolu- 

 ment, which will be derived from such an establish- 

 ment. 



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