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these different methods of propagation, the first we 

 shall describe is that 



By seeds, which has two objects ; the supply of 

 stems, on which to ingraft or inoculate old and fa- 

 vourite races ; and the production of varieties which 

 shall be entirely new. In the first of these cases, 

 sound and thriving stocks are necessary ; and these 

 are only to be had from the seeds of apples grown 

 on healthy and vigorous trees.* In the other case, 

 it is not enough that the parent plant be sound and 

 thriving; it should possess those properties also 

 which the cultivator is most desirous of giving to 

 his orchard : such as bearing abundantly, giving its 

 fruit early in the season, or of a fine flavour, or col- 

 our, or size, &c., &c. The observance of these 

 rules is indispensable to the success of all experi- 

 ments made of this method ; and is so because the 

 rules themselves are founded on an immutable law 

 of nature, that vegetables, like animals, transmit their 

 properties, good or bad, to their offspring. 



The culture of the seeds, whether intended for 

 stems or for fruit, will be the same for the first 

 year. Sow them in autumn, in beds of light mel- 

 low earth of middling quality ; cover them an inch 

 thick with garden mould; and, at the end of the 



Table Apples. Junating, Prince's Harvest, Bough, Summer 

 Queen, Early Pearmain, Summer Rose, Codling, Maiden's 

 Blush, Hagloe Crab, Catiline, Romanite or Rambo, Fall Pippin, 

 Doctor Apple, Wine, Late Pearmain, Burlington, Greening, 

 Bellflower, Newark Pippin, Pennock, Michael Henry, Spitzen- 

 bergh, Newtown Pippin, Priestley, Lady Apple, Carthouse, 

 Tewksbury, Winter Blush. 



Cider Apples. Hewes's Crab, Grayhouse, Winesap, Harrison, 

 Styre, Roane's White Crab, Gloucester White, Redstreak, 

 .Campneld, American Pippin, Golden Rennet, Hagloe Crab, 

 Cooper's Russeting, Ruckman's Pearmain. 



There are propagated in our nurseries several new varieties, 

 obtained from seeds, worthy of cultivation. Editor. 



* The usual method of employing the pumice from a cider- 

 mill is very slovenly, and necessarily rejects all discrimination 

 between good and bad, sound and unsound stems. 

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