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dwarf trees, much the best, because they do not 

 throw up wood so big and so lofty. For orchards, 

 pear-stocks are best ; but not from suckers on any 

 account. They are sure to fill the orchard with 

 suckers. — The pruning for your pear trees in the 

 garden should be that of the peach. The pears will 

 grow higher; but they may be made to spread at 

 bottom, and that will keep them from towering too 

 much. They should stand together, in one of the 

 Plats, 10 or 11. — The sorts of pears are numerous ; 

 the six that I should choose are, the Vergalouse, 

 the Winter Bergamot, the D^Auche, the Beurre^ 

 the Chainnontelle, the Winter Bonchretian. 



320. PLUMS. — How is it that we see so few 

 plums in America, when the markets are supplied 

 with cart-loads in such a chilly, shady, and blighty 

 country as England. A Green-gage Plum is very 

 little inferior to the very finest peach ; and I never 

 tasted a better Green-gage than I have at New York. 

 It must, therefore, be negligence. But Plums are 

 prodigious hearers, too ; and would be very good 

 for hogs as well as peaches. — This tree is grafted 

 upon plum-stocks, raised from stones by all means ; 



(for suckers send out a forest of suckers. — The pru- 

 ning is precisely that of the peach. — The six trees 

 that I would have in the g^arden should be 4 Green 

 gages, 1 Orlean. 1 Blue Perdigron. 



321. QUINCE. — Should grow in a moist place 

 and in very rich ground. It is raised from cuttings, 

 or layers, and these are treated like other cuttings 

 and lavers. — Quinces are dried like apples. 



322. ' RASPBERRY.— A sort oi woody herb, but 

 produces fruit that vies, in point of crop as well as 

 flavour, with that of the proudest tree. I have ne- 

 ver seen them fine in America since I saw them co- 

 vering hundreds of thousands of acres of ground in 



