86 On Fruit and Fruit Trees, 



a fence row, and first began to bear during the Ameri- 

 can revolution. *% 



The best mode that I have experienced to preserve 

 winter apples, is to let them hang on the trees as long 

 as safe from frosts ; in that time such as are most for- 

 ward to rot will have generally fallen off ; then to gather 

 them carefully without bruising, and spread them for 

 some days, to dry thoroughly, in an airy chamber : — 

 then carefully assort and pack them in casks in a cellar, 

 where they will not freeze : — in the spring after the 

 freezing weather is past, spread them again in the cham- 

 ber, and let them have plenty of air ; during the time the 

 apple trees are in blossom, they will rot abundantly more 

 than at any other ; and must often be carefully assorted 

 and spread very thin : such as survive this their pro* 

 bationary period^ until after the fall of the blossoms, in- 

 cline to wither a little, and keep without much more 

 rotting. 



I have had some of my finest and largest New Eng- 

 land seek no furthers, sound and delicious on the 15th 

 of September ; — at which time the same trees on which 

 they grew, were again loaded with another crop of the 

 same kind of apples, sufficiently grown and matured 

 for common use. 



Thus with care and attention, the American farmer 

 may supply his family with green apples every day in 

 the year. — I have done it on this farm, where about 20 

 years ago, I cut down the first tree. — iMost of the farms 

 through the country, abound with great numbers of 

 scrubby natural apple trees around the fences, which 

 the owners consider of little value ; were they trimmed 

 np, and grafted, they would be of great value, and bear 



