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of their growth, those trees which showed the least remove 

 from their wild and thorny state, numbering in all about 

 sixty. These he immediately grafted on a row of thrifty 

 quince stocks of large size ; most of them grew well, though 

 many evidently do not prefer that stock, and the third and 



Fig. 38. Afar thy Anne Fear. 



fourth year they began to bear, the product of one of the 

 earliest being the kind we are now about to describe. Mr. 

 Dana was somewhat surprised to find he had raised such an 

 excellent fruit ; especially as it was the generally received 

 opinion that seedlings from the best varieties generally revert 

 back to their original state. Another year others of the 

 seedlings came into bearing, and, though not superior to the 



