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articles for the table, there is nothing to he met with 

 except a few products of the most inferior kind. 

 All that is seen of orchards, amounts to no more 

 than clumps of orange-trees, crowded together with- 

 out judgment, and in which the quality of the fruit 

 is but little consulted. 



The improvement of fruit is almost neglected; 

 in fact everything which can contribute to furnish 

 the table with wholesome and agreeable vegetables, 

 or fine fruit, is yet to be commenced ; not to men- 

 tion the fact that ornamental gardening is scarcely 

 known. The introduction of the potato, and more 

 recently of the strawberry, is suflBcient to show 

 that the attempts of isolated individuals have not 

 been in vain. How much more, then, might be 

 axjcomplished by the joint efforts of a number of 

 persons zealously engaged in the same pursuit ? 



By an agricultural society, premiums could be 

 given to deserving individuals, as a reward for such 

 operations as might be laid down in its rules. And 

 as the only way by which improvements may be 

 communicated, and modes of culture made known, is 

 by publishing reports of the proceedings of societies, 

 and letters from individuals, describing successful or 

 unsuccessful practice, it Would be necessary that such a 

 society should publish its reports at stated periods. 



