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round the stem, will keep them from climbing 

 the tree ; but they are still alive. As to the di- 

 minutive creatures that appear as sfiecks in the 

 bark', the best, and perhaps, the only remedy 

 against the species of disease of which they are the 

 symptom, consists of good plants, good planting and 

 good tillage. When orchards are seized with 

 diseases that pervade the whole of the trees, or 

 nearly the whole, the best way is to cut them 

 down : they are more plague than profit, and, as 

 long as they exist, they are a source of nothing 

 but constantly-returning disappointment and 

 mortification. However, 'as there are persons 

 who have a delight in quackery, who are never 

 so happy as when they have some specific to ap- 

 ply, and to whom rosy cheeks and ruby lips are 

 almost an eye-sore, it is perhaps, fortunate, 

 that the vegetable world presents them with pa- 

 tients; and thus, even in the cotton-blight or 

 canker, we soe an evil, which we may be led to 

 hope is not altogether unaccompanied with good. 

 299. Having in the former parts of this CHAP- 

 TER, treated of the propagation, planting, and 

 cultivation of all fruit trees (the grape vine only 

 excepted) it would remain for me merely to give 

 a List of the several fruits ; to speak of the dif- 

 ferent sorts of each ; and of the mode of preser- 

 ving them ; but the stocks and pruning vary, in 

 some cases ; and, therefore, as I go along, I shall 

 have to speak of them. Before, however, I enter 

 on this Alphabetical List, let me observe, that 

 only a part of the fruits mentioned in it are pro- 

 posed to be raised in the garden ; and that the 

 70 trees, shown in the Plate I, are intended to 

 mark the places,, and, in some degree, the form. 



