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numerously left : then, you prevent the tree from bear- 

 ing the next year j for it has not strength to provide for 

 blossoms, while it is strained to its utmost in the bearing 

 of fruit. This being a matter of so much importance, 

 and applicable to all sorts of fruit-trees, I beg the reader 

 to observe how fully this opinion is supported by the two 

 instances which I am about to cite. Under the head 

 CUCUMBER, I have observed (and the fact is notorious to 

 all gardeners), that if you leave one fruit to stand for 

 seed, the plant instantly ceases to bear : it is the same 

 with kidney-beans. " Gather cucumbers and have cu- 

 cumbers, gather kidney-beans and have kidney-beans," 

 are maxims as old as the hills. These are annual plants ; 

 and, therefore, the consequences of causing them to 

 make the grand exertion of ripening their fruit are appa- 

 rent the same year. As to fruit-trees, it is notorious 

 that, in this country, orchard trees seldom bear great 

 crops two years running ; but here the matter is irregu- 

 lar owing to the blights, and, therefore, the effect of 

 over-bearing is a fact not so well established as it is in 

 America where there are no blights. In that country, 

 the thing is so well known, that nothing is more common 

 than for a man, going into one part of the country from 

 another, to ask whether that is the bearing year in that 

 neighbourhood } and it never yet was known that two 

 bearing years succeeded each other with regard to the 

 same tree. Some sorts of apples (and the Fall Pippin is 

 one of them) bear upon some limbs of the tree one year, 

 and upon other limbs of the tree another year ; and you 

 will frequently see a limb or two loaded with fruit while 

 not an apple is to be seen on any other part of the tree. 

 This doctrine, therefore, intake to be firmly established. 



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