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fruit without labour, more than any other 

 crop. 



By the indications of constriction before- 

 mentioned, I was led to the practice of 

 peeling In, general. 







Since I commenced this practice, many 

 objections have been made to it by profes- 

 sional men. First, the trees were all to be 

 killed by the cold of winter, " starved to 

 death." Seeing they survived this, they 

 were all to be burnt up 'with the heat of 

 summer. Finding they withstood this also, 

 they were all to die in three years of a 

 fingering illness. The third year is now 

 arrived, and they are neither dead nor sick, 

 but more healthy than ever, and promised 

 a good crop, which I have no doubt they 



