100 On Raimg Apple Trees, and Maldng Cider. 



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IX. A Practical Essag on Eaising Apple Trees, and Maldng 



Cider, hj Mr. A. CEOCKER, of Somerset, England 



To the PiiEsiDEXT and Mejibers of the AxMerigan 



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Academy. 

 Gentlemen, 



HE due cultivation of the arts and sciences tends 

 much to the advantage and glory of every state. In- 

 stitutions hke that of the American Academg cannot fail of 

 producing happy effects on the surrounding world. 



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Notwithstanding I hold all due respect for mathematical 



and jpliilosophical disrpdsitions (two important objects of your 

 institution) yet I conceive that the world, in general, derive 

 a principal advantage from i\i^*due application of the sciences 

 to the common concerns of life. 



norticulture, even when considered as a philosophical sci- 



cncc onlg, is truly a pleasing study; but when applied to 

 practice, it becomes an art profiiahle as i,ell as pleasurable. 



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my intention, in the following essay 



the subject of h 



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but 



> to expiam m a plain yet comprehensive way, one branch 

 thereof; namely, the propagation of apple trees: adding 



a subject naturally appendant, the most success- 



ful mode of 



and salubrio 



fruit thereof into a grateful 



experience and ob 



If the result of twenty years' 

 lollowmg pages have some small claim to that 



exalted pri 



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vilege. 



