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gauze, so as not to touch the flowers, or keep off the sun 

 or air, but to prevent the bees or other insects from inocu- 

 lating them with the pollen of other blossoms, which 

 would make the experiment uncertain ; and in order to 

 obtain the fruit and the seeds of a large size, it is best to 

 leave but few blossoms on the tree, and, at all events, to 

 clear the branches on which the prepared flowers are, 

 from all other blossoms. When the fruit is quite ripe, 

 the pips or seeds should be sown at a proper season, and 

 in suitable soil, and in about four or six years fruit may 

 be expected. Mr. Knight has also made some curious 

 experiments between the peach and the almond, which 

 will be found in the account of the former fruit. Among 

 the new apples which the world have to thank Mr. Knight 

 for, is the Grange apple, which fruited first in 1802, and 

 obtained the prize of the Herefordshire Agricultural So- 

 ciety : it is the offspring of the Orange Pippin and the 

 Golden Pippin. He also obtained the annual premium o-f 

 the same society, in 1807, for the Siberian Harvey, an 

 apple which fruited for the first time in that year. This 

 tree was raised from the seed of the Yellow Siberian Crab 

 and the pollen of the Golden Harvey. Mr. Knight also 

 raised the Foxley apple, from the seed of the yellow Si- 

 berian crab and the pollen of the orange pippin: this 

 fruit also received the premium in 1808, and it is said to 

 rival the golden pippin in sweetness. 



Apples and pears may be raised from seed in the short 

 space of four years, by the following mode : Sow the 

 kernels in separate pots in November, and place them in 

 a green-house during winter. They will vegetate in 

 February ; at Midsummer remove the plants into a seed- 

 bed in rows, about fourteen inches apart. In the autumn 

 of the following year transplant them into a nursery at a 

 distance of six feet. Every succeeding winter prune 

 away all small lateral shoots, leaving the stronger laterals 



