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equal degree of success with apricots, 

 cherries, or otlier early fruits. 



From the observations I have made on 

 the peach tree bearing as a standard, I 

 found tliat in some seasons it bore plenty 

 of fruit when the almond trees that grew 

 nearly in the same place had in general 

 failed ; which difference was occasioned 

 entirely by a frost ; for the almond will 

 bloom ten days before the peach, and a 

 difference in the weather in that interval is 

 often fatal to the fruit. It should more- 

 over be observed that they are natives of 

 Persia, where the seasons are consequently 

 more settled than in this island. In 

 North America also the peach trees bear 

 fruit in orchards, although the winter 

 season is so much more severe, yet when 

 the frost goes an immediate and uninter- 

 rupted spring commences, and no change 

 of weather occurs to prevent the regular 

 progress of vegetation. Those trees and 

 in fact most of our stone fruits are in 

 bloom and the germ completely set before 

 the leaves appear, and it is evident that the 

 young fruit is in a sick or languishing statQ 

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