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On Fruit and Fruit Trees, 

 Read June 13th, 1809. 



Stockport^ Wayne County ^ April Sth^ 1809. 

 For the Philadelphia Society for proinoting Agricul- 

 ture ^c. 



Gentlemen^ 



It is with pleasure that I see your publication* of the 

 21st, last Month, requesting answers to sundry queries 

 respecting the cultivation of fruit trees. 



* The following publication is alluded to : 



The agricultural society of Philadelphia, desirous to collect 

 facts on the subject of fruit and fruit trees^ will be much 

 obliged by answers to any or all of the following queries. As 

 their object is to obtain and promulgate iniormation relative 

 to fruit and fruit trees, the best adapted to our climate and 

 circumstances, they hope those of their fellow citizens, wh© 

 have experience in their culture, will favour them with their 

 assistance in a design of general utility. 



1. What kind of fruits are the greatest and most certain 

 bearers ? 



2. Which are those coming soonest to perfection, and times 

 of blooming and ripening of those within your knowledge ? 



3. Which are the hardiest, and most easily propagated ; 

 and the diiferent modes of culture ; and the times and man- 

 ner of planting and propagating, both as respects season and 

 state of sap I 



