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under the stem, in order that the roots 

 should be sufficiently uncovered. We 

 also find in an intelligent old book, the 

 following receipt, " To hasten and helpe 

 " forward a tree in bringing forth his 

 " fruit, which is long before it bears anie 

 " thing, you must make a hole with a 

 ** wimble in the thickest branch of his 

 " root without boring it through, and in 

 " the hole which you have made, put in 

 *' a staff or stop it with wax, afterward 

 ** cover the root over againe and the tree 

 " will bear the year following." 



This only goes to the checking the 

 luxuriance by cutting off the usual quan- 

 tity of supply of food bythus wounding the 

 roots. These matters if managed judici- 

 ously are useful, but we are so much 

 out of the habit of having recourse to 

 them, that on the first sight we consider 

 only the application, not the consequent 

 effects it is intended to produce. 



As apple-trees are made dwarfs by graft- 

 ing on the paradise stock, the pear by 

 using the quince for the stock will be 

 made also to bear in a small state. It 

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