On Apple Trees and Grafting. 99 



N. B. The appearance of the apple trees that I totally 

 stripped of bark last year, is not such this summer as to 

 encourage me in a large practice ; yet they are both 

 growing, have apples on and a new bark, but the leaves 

 are more of a yellow than the other trees. I have freely 

 devoted them for a fair experiment, and shall watch 

 them closely. 



I have seen in a New York newspaper, an imperfect 

 advertisement of a book, teaching a sure and easy mode 

 to make the limbs of the apple tree grow as certain as 

 a tree with roots. 



If this discovery hath really been made, I consider 

 it the most valuable of any of the present age. 



S. Preston. 



such accidents here, or cultivation in the hands of our sava- 

 ges, who have not multiplied instances of skill in that way, 

 in other parts of our continent, have produced the species 

 mentioned by our correspondent, we are not disposed to be- 

 lieve, without farther prool's than those he has (not uninterest- 

 ingly) exhibited. There is, nevertheless, no impossibility in 

 the circumstance. We have the crab or wildings in as great 

 plenty, and variety, in its native character, as can be found in 

 any country. Perhaps the novelty of the suggestion, may ope- 

 rate on our doubts. We shall be obliged by information of 

 any other facts, if any there be, on this subject, from other 

 parts of our country. 



