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been principally supplied with foreign apples 

 all through the Spring, at a season when the 

 price would be of such signal advantage to our 

 farmers ; in fact, I have been told by respec- 

 table salesmen, that a great many thousand 

 pounds worth of French apples is brought into 

 Covent-garden market every Spring, and the 

 quantity every year increases ; this is the more 

 afflicting, when I know that by proper manage- 

 ment, there is no article at this time the land 

 could be cropped with on a large scale, which 

 would tend to a greater source of profit ; and 

 as the interest equally affects the land owner 

 and the occupier, their united exertions ought 

 not to fail in endeavouring to annihilate this 

 disease. 



Although it has been thought by some 

 nurserymen in the neighbourhood of London, 

 that the introduction of the Chelsea Apple 

 Powder would be a great injury to that branch 

 of the profession, I am confident they have 

 taken a wrong view of the subject, for instead 

 of diminishing, I am sure it would cause a much 

 greater demand for apple trees. 



For some years past, dwarf apple trees have 

 been highly recommended as not being so sub- 

 ject to the canker ; but those trees in various 



