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be obtained renders it possible to procure fruit 

 possessing very different properties and capabilities, 

 adapted, not only to a great variety of uses, but with 

 powers of adaptation to different soils, and a wide 

 range of climatic differences. 



These powers of adaptation have, indeed, resulted 

 in the preservation of many sorts, but it also causes 

 the neglect of some others ; for as fashion takes up 

 with new favourites old ones are neglected until they 

 die out, and, if not become entirely lost, their stocks 

 are lessened, so that the chance of a good choice for 

 their continuance becomes more difficult year by year. 

 "We believe this to have more to do with the decline 

 of old favourites than any inherent principle of decay 

 with which grafts are said to be endowed. 



The many sorts of apples differing so much in 

 flavour and keeping powers, enable this fruit to be 

 employed for a variety of purposes, such as — 



Culinary Apples, vised for tarts, puddings, &c, &c. ; 

 Dessert Apples, usually of a sweet sub-acid flavour and crisp 



texture, eaten raw ; 

 Cider Apples, the expressed juice of which forms English 



Cider (Cidre, French). 



The same distinctions apply to pears, with the dif- 

 ference that their juice is termed Perry. 



Now, with regard to the two first, we need here only 

 mention them incidentally, as their description belongs 

 more properly to the horticulturist, or pomologist, 

 than to the farmer; at the same time it must be 

 confessed that both culinary and dessert apples 

 may be made a source of profit by the farmer, as 

 they would always find ready purchasers ; but the 

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