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the concluding sentiments of Mr. B. in a few words, 

 he maintains, that the different varieties of the apple 

 will, after a certain time, decline and actually die 

 away, and each variety, or all of the same stem or 

 family, will lose their existence in vegetation ; yet, 

 after the debility of age has actually taken possession 

 of any variety, and the vital principle is nearly ex- 

 hausted, a superiour care and warmth will still keep 

 the variety in existence some time longer. This, he 

 observes, is an abstruse subject, very little understood, 

 and requiring at first .seme degree of faith, observa- 

 tion and perseverance. Mr. B. is fully convinced 

 that we have the power of multiplying a single varie- 

 ty, to whatever number we please ; and although 

 these trees may amount to millions, yet, on the death 

 of the primogeneous or parent stock, merely from old 

 age or nihility of growth, each individual shall de- 

 cline, in whatever country they may be, or however 

 endued with youth and health. Nothing sublunary, 

 which possesses either animal or vegetable life, is ex- 

 empt from age and death. To exemplify this point 

 more intelligibly, let it be supposed that the Baldwin 

 apple is a new variety produced from the seed. This, 

 as the original stock, may continue to live one hun- 

 dred years. A scion, taken from it when ten years 

 old, may live ninety years ; another, taken ten years 

 after, may enjoy a duration of eighty years ; and so 

 progressively. At the expiration of one hundred or 

 more years, the original stock, and all derivatives from 

 it, will become extinct. 



METHOD OF FORCING HIUIT TREES TO BLOSSOM A.JID 

 BEAR FRUIT. 



With a sharp knife, cut a ring roundt the limb or 

 small branch which you wish should bear, near the 

 stem or large bough where it is joined $ let this ring 



