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this matter, but I will not say much about it till I hear yours, 

 or some other cultivator's, \vho may think proper to give his. 

 Perhaps your readers may think enough has already been writ- 

 ten on this subject, to instruct all who are desirous to distin- 

 guish between right and wrong ; but I think a wide field 

 still lies open for the exercise and display of talent and in- 

 dustry ; and as these discoveries may be considered as re- 

 lating to the highest branch of gardening, they would, un- 

 doubtedly, reflect credit on those whose investigations tend 

 to elucidate facts hitherto unknown, and accelerate the prac- 

 tice of some method which would be generally applicable to 

 the peculiar condition of our trees ; so that we might know 

 with certainty what to do with them, and what to admin- 

 ister Avhen they are assailed by the numerous ills to which 

 fruit trees are subject. 



If you v/ish it, I will give you a few more ideas of mine 

 on this subject, as I have been somewhat largely engaged in 

 the culture of fruit trees, and with tolerably fair success. 



Sept. 20, 1850. 



[We shall certainly welcome the views of our correspond- 

 ent to our pages, and fully agree with him that there is room 

 for great improvement in the culture of fruit trees. One 

 would suppose, after reading much that is published under 

 the name of horticultural science, that nothing more need be 

 known to reach the perfection of cultivation ; an amateur 

 has only to look into the pages of a gardening periodical and 

 find a recipe which will at once transform all his diseased 

 trees into healthy ones, and his blighted fruits into the most 

 fair and beautiful. The apothecary's shop is to be the grand 

 source for curing the ills of the vegetable as well as animal 

 world. All is not science that is written under that name ; 

 and especially in Horticulture does this hold true. Indeed 

 the greatest bar to its progress is the charlatanry of many of 

 its practitioners. — -Ed.] 



