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ent parts of the kingdom, which were in full vigour 

 and bearing ; and though young plants pitted in old 

 gardens and orchards were unthrifty, such as were 

 properly planted in newly broken-up ground, pro- 

 vided they were worked on the best crab stock, 

 succeeded as well as ever. 



This being the opinion of the author respecting 

 the failure of the old golden pippin, and other old 

 sorts of apples, he gave the subject his best consider- 

 ation, and set about proving how far his own con- 

 jectures were well or ill founded ; and, after the 

 experience of forty years, he has come to the following 

 conclusion, viz, — that if crab stocks be raised from 

 the most healthy wiiil trees, properly treated and 

 planted out in the nursery, and worked with the most 

 healthy moderate-siztd wions, cut from the top of 

 sound healihj/ trees, and when fit for final transplan- 

 tation be placed on well- trenched light fresh loam, 

 having a dry bottom of rock or cnai k, the trees 

 will assuredly prosper without fear of disappoint- 

 ment. On the other hand, if the grafts be taken in- 

 discriminately from any tree, or from any part of a 

 tree, and placed either on free or paradise stocks, the 

 young trees so raised will, nine times out of twelve, 

 be in some respect or other defective ; and particu- 

 larly if they be not afterwards planted in their 

 favourite soil, where their wood would not be suffi- 

 ciently ripened. 



The golden pippin requires a dry and moderately 

 warm climate. The best fruit are produced in 

 Normandy on the Continent, in Sussex in England, 



