38 On Producing new and early Fruits. 



Grape, capable of ripening perfectly in our climate, when 

 trained to a south wall, and of other fruits better calculated 

 for our climate than those we now cultivate, may readily be 

 obtained ; but whether the mode of culture I have adopted 

 and recommended be the most eligible must be decided by 

 future and more extensive practice. 



I have made experiments similar to the preceding, on the 

 Peach ; but I can say no more of the result of them, than 

 that the plants possess the most perfect degree of health and 

 luxuriance of growth, and that their leaves afford satisfac- 

 tory evidence of the good quality of the future fruit. I am 

 ignorant of the age at which plants of this species become 

 capable of producing blossoms ; but the rapid changes 

 in the character of the leaves and growth of my plants, 

 which are now in their third year, induces me to believe, 

 that they will be capable of producing fruit at three or four 

 years old. 



I shall finish my paper with stating a few conclusions, 

 which I have been able to draw in the course of many years 

 close attention to the subject on which I write. 



New varieties of every species of fruit will generally be 

 better obtained by introducing the farina of one variety of 

 fruit into the blossom of another, than by propagating from 

 any single kind. When an experiment of this kind is made, 

 between varieties of different size and character, the farina 

 of the smaller kind should be introduced into the blossoms of 

 the larger ; for, under these circumstances, I have generally 

 (but with some exceptions) observed in the new fruit a preva- 

 lence of the character of the female parent ; probably owing 

 to the following causes. The seed-coats are generated wholly 



