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LETTERS 



TO All 



INTENDING FRUIT-GROWER, 



INTRODUCTORY LETTER. 



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Dear Sir, — As you •wish to plant fruit- 

 trees, but are unacquainted with their culture, 

 I will try to make the results of my experienoe 

 as plain to you as I can. 



From an extensive correspondence with all 

 sections of the country on this subject, it has 

 greatly surprised me to find how very few, even 

 ofiutelligent and educated persons, are acquaint- 

 ed with the first principles of the planting and 

 culture of fruit-trees ; but it really should not 

 cause surprise, for what appears so plain and 

 simple to one trained to it from childhood, is 

 a very serious matter to those who have had 

 no opportunity of becoming acquainted with it ; 

 and all the works on the subject are so volumi- 

 nous that to those whose time is fully occupied 

 in other pursuits, it is almost a task to read them, 

 while their cost generally is so high as to debar 

 the great mass of the people from procuring them. 



It will, therefore, be my endeavor in the fol- 

 lowing letters to give in as short a space as pos- 

 sible, all the directions that are absolutely neces- 

 sary to enable you, or those who have never 

 planted trees before, to do it successfully, as also, 

 lists of the best varieties of fruit suitable for the 

 different sections of this country, which my long 

 experiense, both of Eastern and Western Ca- 

 nada, will enable me to give, at least as well as 

 any one else. 



My letters will be in the following order, 

 viz. : — On the Sites, Soils, and Aspects most suit- 

 able for Fruit-Culture ; Planting, and After Care 

 of Pru't-Trees, &c. ; Apples ; Pears ; Plums and 

 Cherries; Peaches, Nectarines, Apricots, and 

 Quinces ; Grapes ; The Smaller Fruits ; Pack- 

 ing and Marketing Fruit ; and lastly, On the 

 Importance and Profitableness of Fruit-Culture 

 generally. 



JAMES DOUGALL, 



WlSDSOK, C. W. 



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