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prospers extremely well in New-England, especially Massachu- 

 setts and Connecticut, and we have some of the most experienced, 

 skillful, and successful cultivators of the fruit in the neighbor- 

 hood of Boston. This has be«n proved by the very superior 

 qualities that have been produced there at various times for 

 several years past. As for the names of the various kinds which 

 thrive best in our country, and are considered the finest, I must 

 refer those who desire to know them, to Kenrick's Ame.ican Or- 

 chardist, a valuable work on most of our important fruits. The 

 pear is a hardy tree — it lives to a great age. There is one in 

 this city, on the old Stuyvesant farm, said to be 200 years old» 

 and one near Boston considerably older. Before I close, I wish 

 to mention a fact which has come to my knowledge, from highly 

 respectable sources, some years since, as well as very lately. It 

 relates to the best mode of procuring seedlings from the apple, 

 pear, &;c. — that is to plant the whole apple as taken from the 

 ti-ee, the seeds enveloped in the flesh and pulp, without breaking 

 or disturbing either. The seeds thus treated, when they come 

 up and grow, it is said, are sure to reprodu«e, in every respect, 

 the original fruit. The great difficulty has been in planting 

 seeds in the old way, to get one seed out of a thousand, and oftener 

 more, to reproduce the same fruit, or scarcely resembling it in 

 any particular. It is supposed to be owing to the pulp of the 

 apple infusing its essence or powers of propagation into the seed, 

 and the two containing an embryo more perfect of the future 

 plant, produce a more exact likeness of the fruit of the parent 

 tree. This plan, I am crebibly informed, has been tried years 

 ago, and succeeded. Now the course is grafting — this effects the 

 same object sooner it is true, but perhaps not more certain, and 

 at the expense of cutting and mutilating more or less the tree 

 grafted on, and that from which the grafts are taken. The Ame- 

 rican motto of " p-o-a-/<eflrf," is applied to every tiling, and gene- 

 rally we have not the patience to wait for the result of a few 

 years, even with the fair prospect of greater profit, ultimately. 



[For the Fanners' Club.] 



To produce a good a?id early orchard. — Take the suckers of crab 

 trees — such as have not been grafted — split them off" from the 

 root of the parent tree under the surface of the ground so that 



