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also witheringly discarded by some croakers, who raise the 

 physiological cry of " the old kinds wearing out." This reas- 

 oning is not from analogy, but is merely a supposition. It 

 would be a very easy task to renew any worn-out tree, that 

 had only a few fresh and sound buds left ; or even to renovate 

 trees that are in a declining state ; in the former case by bud- 

 ding or grafting upon young stocks that have been grown from 

 the seed ; in the latter, by scraping off the old bark from the 

 trunk and branches, and renewing the soil about the roots. 

 Our object, however, is not to enter into a detail of the causes, 

 effects, and diseases of trees, and their remedies. These sub- 

 jects are elaborately treated of in the periodicals of the day. 

 Our object is to lay before our readers a really select catalogue 

 of select fruits, that will be eatable the whole year, from which 

 more pleasure will be derived than by cultivating acres con- 

 taining trees not two alike, at least in name. We say differ- 

 ing only in name, for the cultivator will find that some fruits 

 are grown under from three to thirty names, so that after select- 

 ing with care one hundred kinds of fruit, there may prove to 

 be not fifty distinct, and one-half of these not worth culture. 

 The fruit catalogues of the present day are very imposing 

 bundles of paper and ink, got up to allay the appetite for new 

 fruits. Those whose sole object is to grow for domestic use 

 or for sale, should select such as agree with the climate of the 

 locality, and are known to be both good and productive. Such 

 are those we now introduce, premising that we are under obli- 

 gations to Mr. Thos. Hancock, an eminent orchardist and 

 nurseryman of Burlington, N. J., both for descriptions of fruits 

 and their characteristic beauties or defects. They are all pro- 

 pagated either by grafting or budding ; and as it is our desire 

 that all our readers should know how to propagate, and by 

 what means to perpetuate every variety of fruit we will briefly 

 detail the operations. 



