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and I never tasted a better Green-gage than I 

 have at New York. It must therefore, be neg- 

 ligence. 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 oy all means ; for suckers send 

 out a forest of suckers. The pruning 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 Perdrigon. 



321. QUINCE. Should grow in a moist place 

 and in very rich ground. It is raised from cut- 

 tings or layers, and these are treated like other 

 cuttings and layers. Quinces are dried like 

 apples. 



322. RASBERRY. A sort of woody herb, 

 but produces fruit that vies, in point of crop as 

 well as flavour, with that of the proudest tree. 

 I have never seen them fine in America since I 

 saw them covering hundreds of thousands of 

 acres of ground in the Pro-vince of New Bruns- 

 wick. They come there even in the interstices 

 of the rocks, and, when the August sun has parch- 

 ed up the leaves, the landscape is red with the 

 fruit. Where woods have been burnt down, 

 the rasberry and the huckle-berry instantly spring 

 up, divide the surface between them, and furnish 

 autumnal food for flocks of pigeons that darken 

 the earth beneath their flight. Whence these 

 plants come, and cover spots thirty or forty miles 

 square, which have been covered with woods for 

 ages upon ages, I leave for philosophers to say, 

 contenting myself with relating how they come 

 and how they are treated in gardens. They are 

 raised from suckers, though they may be raised 



