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them I know not, nor do I know whether 

 they have made a distinction between trees 

 of a spare and profuse blossom ; but I know 

 that I have a number of trees very thick of 

 wood, which bear very great crops j but all 

 these have a very spare blossom ? and I 

 likewise know, that it is of advantage to the 

 crop in this climate, where the fruit is so 

 often destroyed by the inclemency of the 

 weather, for a tree to be thick of wood; 

 for I have often observed the fruit of a 

 thick-wooded tree destroyed on that point 

 of the compass whence the storm proceed- 

 ed, and preserved on the opposite side, when 

 that of the thin-wooded tree was destroyed 

 altogether. 



These observations, without any comment, 

 were given in to the Caledonian Horticul- 

 tural Society, on the 1st September, 1812, 



