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The Friar. The trees of this variety 

 are of vigorous growth and productive 

 of fruit, so that it frequently produces 

 a cask of good cyder, but from its old 

 age, an orchard now planted with it would 

 probably soon exhibit symptoms of the 

 debilities of old age. 



I shall also give in detail, a description 

 of a few new varieties, which, from their 

 good properties, are now in considerable 

 demand, and conclude with a list of such 

 as are worth attending to for general cul- 

 ture, for, as I before observed, the num- 

 ber of kinds cultivated in the nurseries 

 near London are superfluous in the ex- 

 treme. In my experimental orchard, I 

 have every sort that I can get with any 

 character tending to recommend them, 

 amounting to nearly 300 sorts. Several of 

 which having bore fruit 1 have put out of 

 the collection, by cutting down and graft- 

 ing the trees afresh with such sorts as I 

 found better worth keeping. 



The kinds of fruits, tlieref ore, which I 

 •hall give in the following lists will be 



