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may not be attended with any seriouf* 

 injury to the s'ock, cannot possibly do it 

 any real service. One pailicidar regard- 

 ing tlie propriety of tlie apple stock for 

 grafting, seems in the present day wholly 

 disregarded, and that is, the kinds of 

 fruit from whence they are raised ; if 

 seedling stocks are found near farm 

 buildings in the cyder counties, they 

 should be looked on with a cautious eye 

 by the planter, for it is ten to one, if it 

 is not the produce of some improved 

 variety of the apple kind ; and it is to be 

 observed, that these improved varieties 

 are more tender in their constitution than 

 the true seedling crabs, v*'hose wood is 

 of slower growth, and, consequently, of 

 closer texture, so that they can resist 

 the injuries trees are liable to, better 

 than those from the apples. 



In the county of Sussex, there is an 

 apple called the Bittersweet, tlie fruit 

 of which makes a weak, but pleasant 

 cyder, and the wood of which will readi- 

 ly grow from cuttings ; this we use for 

 making stocks to graft a])ples on for 



