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It will be found eminently more efficacious to apply such 

 liquid as hot as practicable. If it be boiling hot, by the time it 

 is spread out on the cold bark of the tree it will be so cool that 

 the bark will receive no injury in consequence of the liquid 

 being hot. Such hot liquid will destroy the eggs of insects 

 much quicker than when it is cold. — S. E. Todd. 



APPLE. 



PoMMiER. Pyrus mains. 



And now we've arrived near the close of the year, 

 Wi7iter Apples and Cranberries bring up the rear, 

 All are good of their kind, and we freely declare. 

 Not one of the Fruits we would willingly spare. 



The Apple being so closely connected with our wants and 

 enjoyments, is entitled to the first notice in the catalogue of 

 our fruits. The Apple-Orchard is, in truth, the vineyard of our 

 country ; and the delicious beverage that can be obtained from 

 some of the varieties of this excellent fruit being calculated to 

 cheer the invalid, as well as to strengthen the healthy, entitles 

 it to high consideration. It is one of our oldest and best fruits, 

 and has become completely naturalized to our soil. None can 

 be brought to so high a degree of perfection with so little 

 trouble ; and of no other are there so many excellent varieties 

 in general cultivation, calculated for almost every soil, situation, 

 and climate, which our country affords. 



AGE OF APPLE-TREES. 



The Apple-tree is supposed by some to attain a great age. 

 Haller mentions some trees in Herefordshire, England, that 

 were a thousand years old, and were still highly prolific ; but 

 Knight considers two hundred years as the ordinary duration 

 of a healthy tree, grafted on a crab-stock, and planted in a 



