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the double grafting, as I have this year had some fine dishes 

 of the latter fruit ; indeed, the latter tree is healthy and 

 vigorous, while the Colmar seems scarcely to vegetate through 

 April and May, making little progress towards ripening or 

 perfecting its next year's blossom buds. I feel so confident 

 that the double grafting has given vigour and hardihood to the 

 Poire d'Auch, and forced it into fruiting, that I shall certainly 

 try to encourage the Colmar, by inserting its grafts, next spring, 

 into a Bergamot tree also. Should any of your correspond- 

 ents have tried similar grafting, either by design or accident, 

 and marked the result to be in any way similar to my own, it 

 will be of use to state the fact. 



We already know that many fruits are rendered worthless 

 by the use of improper stocks ; why may not other fruits be 

 benefited by using peculiar stocks ? I am inclined to believe 

 that from grafts coming to me from two trees of the same 

 species long cultivated in Kent and at Liverpool, I should 

 obtain fruits, which, when they came into bearing in my 

 garden would ripen at different periods. 



The inutility of the Pomological Magazine must now be 

 apparent to every person ; as far, at least, as market-gardeners 

 and orchardists are concerned. Let us suppose a common 

 case. A market-gardener is to commence an orchard. What 

 is the first object of his thoughts ? Why, to procure the best 

 trees suited to his market, soil, and situation. Or, if a man 

 leases an orchard, wherein are many bad or failing trees, 

 which require replacing or regrafting, is he not also desirous 

 of good fruits suited to his purpose ? 



In what way is the farmer, gentleman, or general orchard- 

 ist differently situated? Why, in none. All seek, — for what? 

 Inferior fruits, because new ? No, decidedly not. They all 

 try to procure the best, new or old, and they apply where they 

 are most likely to effect their object. Now, had the Horticul- 

 tural Society discouraged the cultivation of inferior fruits, 

 reduced the lists, and selected its best sorts, distributed cut- 

 tings amongst the London nurserymen, along with their ob- 

 servations, and had the editors of the Pomological Magazine 

 published this reduced and corrected list, with plates of the 

 selected fruits grouped, so as to bring the whole within a 

 limited price as well as limited period, the same would speedily 

 have found its way into the country nurseries, when any 

 person wanting a tree might be certain of a good fruit. 



But there is still another very material defect. Neither 

 soil, climate, nor situation is referred to, though the Society 

 well know that many trees would be unthrifty on the outside, 

 while others would become prolific bearers, and, at the same 



