84 On Fruit and Fruit Trees* 



and this glutinous substance to harden, and has since 

 grown into a perfect bark, the apples hung on as the 

 other trees, and no bitter-rot on them as had been some 

 years before. 



I relate the facts as they are, and hope that others of 

 more knowledge and judgment, may improve on the 

 experiment. I intend myself to make further trials. 



These facts I communicated in a letter to my wor- 

 thy and ingenious friend Doctor B, S. Barton, and gave 

 it as my opinion, that the ap.nual growth of the tree at 

 that season is of such an age, as to be in an optio7ial 

 state to either form wood or bark, as the necessity of the 

 tree may require ; how much earlier the operation ought 

 to be performed in more southern climates, must be 

 tested by experience.^' 



I have lost several good trees by those worms ; — they 

 first kill the bark, then a speedy rot takes place in the 

 wood, and they blow down with storms : and according 

 to my observations, ail trees in a declining state are 

 much more subject to the hitter-rot, than those in a 

 more flourishing condition. 



Some experiments and observations I have made iiv 

 regard to raishig orchards and preserving of apples, I 

 presume may prove vrorthy the attention of the public. 



The common practice in raising apple trees is to graft 

 or inoculate them when small in tlie nursery near the 

 ground : this does not appear to my experience to be 

 the best way, as I have two large orchards of trees 

 raised in that way, bearing the best kinds of fruit, and 



* See Medical Repository ot New- York, vols. 3d, and 4th, 

 for :.in account Oi the utility of barking fruit trees. 



J. M. 



