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only such as [ can recommend from my 

 own personal knowledge of them. My 

 intention is to publish from time to tim« 

 the merits of other kinds, as I may find 

 them turn out on a fair trial. And as 

 inclination to bear is a very necessary 

 qualification in all fruit, I shall be par- 

 ticular in recording this circumstance ; 

 but it is not the experience of only 

 one or two seasons that will justify the 

 giving of the character of fruit, and the 

 recommendations of many persons should 

 not be heeded, when such are only drawn 

 from local instances, which are not in 

 general proper proofs of merit, as soil, 

 situation, and particular seasons, will 

 much alter the course of nature in these 

 things. 



The Downton Pippin. Mr. Knight, in 

 his communication to the Horticultural 

 Society, says of this fruit, it is equally 

 well calculated for the desert, the press, 

 and for every culinary purpose, where a 

 large size is not required ; and 1 do not 

 know any apple which can be brought to 

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