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4th. I was in Lancaster about the 10th October, and 

 obtained some valuable cuttings from my friend Timo- 

 thy Matlack Esqr. I took them home carefully, and laid 

 them under a sod, as I had done the pomme roi : at graft- 

 ing time I took them up, they all appeared rotten in the 

 bark, and I could not prevail on one to grow. 



5th. The grafts of my Townsend apples were cut and 

 sent me in the month of June, after the leaves were 

 nearly of full size; they were withered in conveying up- 

 wards of 130 miles ; I grafted them the latter part of 

 June in trees in full leaf, and yet all grew and are yet 

 growing. 



6th. In June last year, for experiment, after the leaves 

 were about fully grown, I cut off and grafted a large tree 

 in the limbs, taking my grafts out of the orchard also in 

 full leaf: I had 11 stocks, and set 22 grafts, of 22 dif- 

 ferent kinds of apple ; and never had grafts to grow 

 better. 



7th. About the middle of last March, I was in the 

 city of Albany, and called on my friend Peter Yeates 

 Esquire, for a variety of cuttings from his far famed 

 fruits : he gave them cheerfully, I wrapped them up 

 in the most careful manner, took them home, and buried 

 them in my cellar as formerly ; at grafting time they all 

 appeared to be decaying under the bark, I set them with 

 all possible care, but only succeeded in two apple grafts. 



As to this season it hath been the most cold and wet 

 ever known ; attended with heavy fogs and dews : our 

 grass and oats grew very large ; wheat better than we 

 expected ; of Indian corn I presume there will be none 

 to ripen, and even plaister of Paris would not bring it 

 forward. 



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