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Hawthornden, Keswich Codling, Kentish Beauty, 

 Kentish Fill-basket, &c. When I make mention of 

 those sorts, and a number of others, I am always in- 

 formed that they will not answer hereabouts, although 

 I have never met with one person that has ever at- 

 tempted, or that had ever heard of any one else at- 

 tempting to introduce them! I should be rather 

 inclined to think that those large juicy kinds, cultivated 

 for mixing with the little Bitter-sweets, would not be 

 amiss, although I dare say, under the present system 

 of cultivation, they would not be produced very large 

 or juicy. The leaves of the trees show great poverty ; 

 they are small, thin, and are not much larger than 

 damson leaves ; they turn yellow, and fall off in some 

 localities long before the fruit has arrived at perfec- 

 tion ; and the abundance of long moss and lichen, in 

 my opinion, to a certain extent indicates poverty. 



"I will here attempt to describe three different 

 orchards, under the management of three different 

 persons. The first is an orchard of above 12 acres 

 in size; the owner never digs, manures, or prunes 

 himself, but leaves those operations to be performed 

 by his cattle ; he does not allow pigs to run in his 

 orchard, therefore he has no digging done ; and the 

 consequence is, that he does not get a tree to bear 

 fruit once in seven years. He lately informed me 

 that he should not have apples enough this autumn to 

 make four hogsheads of cider ; that the seasons were 



