SECT. XVII. 0* FRUITS. 279 



and descriptions, by which every one will know by 

 what names to call those he sees." No ! for a very 

 intimate acquaintance hardly can do it 



Disappointment frequently originates with the pur- 

 chaser, who having met with a fruit to his mind, in- 

 quires the name, and is told a wrong one, and that, 

 perhaps, of a bad sort; the nurserymen then comply- 

 ing with his order, is blamed. A reduction of the 

 number of sorts, to those in which there is an evident 

 difference, with more care on the part of those who 

 raise, and those who buy trees, in all respects; and 

 particularly that of preserving the true name, seeifl* 

 necessary, therefore, in the affair of fruit trees. 



The choice of fruit trees should be somewhat go- 

 verned by soil and situation ; (which was observed p. 

 30) for the fruit which succeeds in one, will not in 

 another. Later fruit may be planted in light soils 

 than in strong ones. Some sorts grow finest in a 

 cool, others in a warm soil, and some situations are 

 too bleak, cither for early or late fruit, though the 

 aspect, and all other circumstances, may be goodr 

 In planting fruit trees, particularly those of the 

 wall, much discretion is necessary to avoid disap- 

 pointment. 



As fruit trees are so readily purchased, few people 

 care to raise them; but those who may be disposed 

 this way, will find instructions in the sections nur- 

 sery and graffing. The purchaser must attend care- 

 fully to the planting, for which work directions have 

 been given in the sections on the formation of a 

 garden, and that on planting. For the training 

 and pruning of fruit trees, ample rules are laid 

 down in the section, On pruning: so that nothing 

 need be said of their cultivation here, making proper 

 references. 



APPLES, as the most useful fruit, it. will be proper 

 to provide as many trees of as there may be fcuud 



