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them have been carried and used as grafts all round 

 the country. During the few days that I was at Mr. 

 James Paul's, in 181 7, several persons came for grafts; 

 so that these trees must be pretty famous. The fruit 

 is large, thin skinned, small stone, and fine colour 

 and flavour, and the tree grows freely and in beauti- 

 ful form. For Pruning, see PEACH. To preserve 

 cherries, gather them without bruising; take off the 

 tails ; lay them in the sun on dry deal hoards ; when 

 quite dry put them by in bags in a dry place. They 

 form a variety in the tart-making way. 



304. CHESTNUT. This is an inhabitant of the 

 woods ; and, as to its fruit, I have only to say, 

 that the American is as much better than the Span- 

 ish as the tree is a finer tree. To preserve chest- 

 nuts, so as to have them to sow in the spring, or to 

 tat through the winter, you must put them into a 

 DOX, or barrel, mixed with, and covered over by, 

 $ne dry sand. If there be maggots in any of the 

 rhestnuts, they will work up through the sand, to 

 get to air ; and, thus, you have your chestnuts sweet 

 and sound and fresh. To know whether chestnuts 

 will grow, toss them into water. If they swim, 

 they will not grow. 



305. CRANBERRY. This is one of the best 

 fruits in the world. All tarts sink out of sight in 

 point of merit, when compared with that made of 

 the American Cranberry. There is a little dark 

 red thing, about as big as a large pea, sent to Eng- 

 land from the North of Europe, and is called a 

 Cranberry ; but, it does not resemble the American 

 in taste any more than in bulk. It is well known 

 that this valuable fruit is, in many parts of this 

 country, spread over the low lands in great profu- 

 sion ; and that the mere gathering of it is all that 

 bountiful nature requires at our hands. This fruit 



