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XXU. Aai Account of a fingular Apple-Tree, , producing Fruit 
- ef oppofite Qualities ; a Part of the fame Apple being frequent 
- Jy four, and the other fweet. In a Letter from tbe Reverend 
PETER WHITNEY, 7o the Reverend JosepH WILLARD, 
i p. UOTE 4. A. ing Put of the wie in oe 
| l Nor ables July. 15, 1782. 
REVEREND SIR, 
HERE is now growing in an dard: ately belonging? 
“to my honoured father, the Reverend Aaron Whitney, 
of È Pterfobam, deceafed, an apple-tree, very fingular with re- 
fpe& to its fruit. The apples are fair, and, when fully ripe, 
of a yellow colour, but, evidently, of different taftes—four and 
Íweet. The part which is four is not very tart, nor the other 
very fweet. Two apples growing fide by fide, on. the fame 
limb, will be often of thefe different taftes, the one all four, and 
the other all fweet. And, which is more remarkable, the fame 
apple will frequently be four on one fide, end, or part, and the 
other fweet, and that not in any order or uniformity ; nor is 
there any difference in the appearance of the one part from the 
other. And as to the quantity, fome have more of the acid 
and lefs of the fweet, and fo vice verfa. Neither are the ap- 
ples fo different in their taftes, peculiar to any particular 
branches, but are found, promifcuoufly, on every branch of 
the tree. The tree ftands almott in the midft of a large or- 
chard, in a rich and ftrong foil, and was tranfplanted there 
about forty years azo. There is no appearance of the trunk or 
any of the branches having been ingrafted or inoculated. It 
was a number of years, wey it had born fruit, before thefe dif- 
ferent 
