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varieties are capable of being brought 

 round again, equal to what they have 

 been, and what they were with us thirty 

 years past. I would therefore wish to 

 caution the growers of fruit from fall- 

 ing into the extreme, of attributing what 

 is caused by maltreatment, to old age 

 and irrecoverable decay; although there is 

 room enough in our cider countries for 

 persons to despair of ever seeing any 

 kind of apple trees in health again. 



The two most destructive diseases to 

 the human race, whose very names alone 

 carried fear and dismay into every part 

 of the world, we have happily seen much 

 lessened in their progress. The plague, 

 from a habit of cleanliness amongst na- 

 tions, is scarcely known, but in a small 

 filthy district in Asia : and the small-pox, 

 which was considered a scourge from 

 Heaven among the Europeans, has been 

 nearly extirpated by the ingenuity and 

 application of one of our own country- 

 men. Shall we then, after contemplat- 

 ing such blessings as these, which have 

 been obtained by industry alone, despair 



