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dwarf trees, much the best, because they do not 

 throw up wood so big and so lofty. For orchards, 

 pear-stocks are best ; but not from suckers on any 

 account. They are sure to fill the orchard with 

 suckers. The pruning for your pear trees in the 

 garden should be that of the peach. The pears will 

 grow higher; but they may be made to spread at 

 bottom, and that will keep them from towering too 

 much. They should stand together, in one of the 

 Plats, 10 or 11. The sorts of pears are numerous ; 

 the six that I should choose are, the Vergalousc, 

 the Winter Bergamot, the D'Auche, the Beurre, 

 the Chaumontelle, the Winter Bonchretian. 



320. PLUMS. How is it that we see so few 

 plums in America, when the markets are supplied 

 with cart-loads in such a chilly, shady, and blighty 

 country as England. A Green-gage Plum is very 

 little inferior to the very finest peach ; and I never 

 tasted a better Green-gage than I have at New York. 

 It must, therefore, be negligence. But Plums are 

 prodigious bearers, too ; and would be very good 

 for hogs as well as peaches. This tree is grafted 

 upon plum-stocks, raised from stones by all means ; 

 for suckers send out a forest of suckers. The pru- 

 ning is precisely that of the peach. The six trees 

 that I would have in the garden should be 4 Green 

 gages, 1 Orlean, 1 Blue Pcrdigron. 



321. QUINCE. Should grow in a moist place 

 and in very rich ground. It is raised from cuttings, 

 or layers, and these are treated like other cuttings 

 and layers. Quinces are dried like apples. 



322.' RASPBERRY 4 sort, jf woody herb, but 

 produces fruit that vies, in point of crop as well as 

 flavour, with that of the proudest tree. I have ne- 

 ver seen them fine in America since I saw them co- 

 vering hundreds of thousands of acres of ground in 



