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this fruit is susceptible ; and in similar climates here 
we may, no doubt, have fruit equally good. Our 
own climate (that of New-York) does not appear to 
be favorable to its production. Our trees are often 
sickly and our peaches generally sour and watery, 
and entirely destitute of that aroma, which forms 
the great excellence of this fruit. After these gene- 
ral remarks, we proceed to what is more particularly 
ihe object of this section. 
It has been said, and we think with much good 
sense, that “every farmer ought to raise his own 
trees,” because, besides the risk, inconvenience and 
expense of bringing our plants from abroad, we have, 
in pursuing that mode of supply, to encounter the 
tricks and blunders of nurserymen and the ill conse- 
quences which follow a want of analogy between the 
soil in which the plants were raised and that to which 
they are to be transferred. The first step, therefore, 
towards obtaining a good orchard, is to create a good 
nursery, The situation most favorable for this, is a 
piece of level ground,defended from cold and violent 
winds, either by natural or artificial means, and 
which in composition is neither wet nor dry, and’ 
of only middling fertility. This condition of the soil 
is a circumstance of much importance, and ought to 
be rigorously observed, because the vessels of young 
trees, growing in rich soils, take a size proportioned 
to the quantity of sap they receive and circulate, and 
if their situation be changed for the worse, the quan: 
tity of the sap being necessarily diminished, the ves- 
sels become rigid and unhealthy, and unable to car- 
ry to the extremity of the branches the nourishment 
