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would have performed as they had done the 

 two last years bygone, had it not been for 

 the extreme severity of the weather, in the 

 time of blossom and setting. And several 

 trees of great age, with which every means 

 proposed by professional nieiyhiid been 

 used, but never bore fruit, have, since peel- 

 ed, produced very good crops. In corrobo- 

 ration of what I here state from my own 

 knowledge, I beg leave to insert a paragraph 

 from a letter I received from a respectable 

 gentleman in the neighbourhood of Glas- 

 gow: 



u Mr PATRICK LYON, 



LANCEFJELDJ near Glasgow, 15th March 1813. 

 Dear Sir, ' 



<c It gives me much pleasure to inform 

 you of an experiment made in imitation of 



