ON THE NATURE OF FRUIT-TREES IN GENERAL, 

 THE INJURIES THEY ARE LIABLE TO, AND THE 

 PARTICULAR ATTENTION NECESSARY TO BE 

 PAID TO THEM, SO AS TO ENSURE HEALTH, 

 VIGOUR, AND LUXURIANCE OF GROWTH. 



ERE a person to ask of any one 



who had been viewing human nature 

 only through a common medium, the 

 question, " What a man was ?" The 

 following, or some such, would naturally 

 be the answer : He is a being possessing 

 life, motion, and will ; he walks upright, 

 and has many peculiar propensities ; the 

 most predominant of which are, that he is 

 always sensibly alive to the slightest in- 

 jury, and particularly fond of good eating 

 and drinking. But were I to ask the 

 same question of a skilful surgeon, he 



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