C **o 3 

 SECTION XVIL 



OF PRUITS* 



THERE is a variety (and^f fome a great one) of 

 each kind of fruit, and the difference of taftes 

 makes it impoffible to pronounce upon their particular 

 merits. With refpefi to fruit, there are provincial 

 prejudices in favour of fome, and of apples in par- 

 ticular; fo that in one county, a fort fhall be generally 

 known and admired, and in another, not be heard of. 



In affifting the young gardener in his choice of the 

 principal fruits, only a few forts will be named; fuch 

 as have obtained almoft an univerfal credit. It would 

 be well if the number of fome kinds (as mpeachesj were 

 reduced ; for their multiplicity occafions a great uncer- 

 tainly, and their fhades of diitinftion are hardly difco- 

 vered by the beft judges. Nurferymen $ catalogues 

 furmfh large lifts. 



Of the fame fort of fruit there is often a perceptible 

 difference, owing either jointly or feparately to the 

 flock, ftate of the tree, foil, foliation, management, 

 and feafon. Bad ptanting, by cramping the roots , &c, 

 will otten induce ficklinefs, and of courfe a good plant 

 made to produce fmall, ill-flavoured fruit, and thus it 

 will appear to be not itfelf. So that when the heft 

 method is taken to procure good fruit, (or fuch that 

 pleafe us) which is by grajffing, or inoculating from the 

 very tree we have admired the fruit of, our expecta- 

 tions may, in a meafure, be difappointed by a variety of 

 circumitances. 



