ife. ON AMERICAN j , 



WHETHER this is owing to a feminai* 

 Variety, or to fome fuperior quality in the 

 ground where fuch plants are planted, I 

 do not pretend to determine ; but if, upon 

 the nicefl obfervation, there cannot be dif- 

 c0vered the leaft variation from the others 

 that grow fo (lowly, I think it would be 

 furprizingjf it proceeded from a change 

 in the feed, but rather from force hidden 

 quality in the foiL 



THOSE that are curious in trees, when 

 they cbferve a feedling-tree that is re- 

 markably different, and has fome good' 

 qualities which they would wifh to pre- 

 ferve,- the bsfb method is to convert it into 

 aftcol, and raiie plants from layers (for 

 all fortft-trees will grow from layers) 

 which is a more certain method than graft- 

 ing j for all trees partake foruething of the 

 flock they are grafted on, as can be eafily 

 proved from the dwarfimnefs of the apples ? 

 grafted on paradife {locks, and pears on 

 quinces, with many others. 



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