APPENDIX. 



I. An easy, simple, and infallible Method to force every Fruit-tree 

 to blossom and to bear Fruit. Translated from the German of the 

 Rev. George Charles Lewis Hempel, (Secretary to the Pomolo- 

 gical Society of Altenburgh, in Saxony,,) by George Henry 

 Noehden, LL.D. F.L.S. %c. 



Read January, 7, 1817. 



In my early years I saw my father, who was fond of Pomology 

 and skilled in that science, cutting a ring on several branches of 

 trees, which already were in blossom, for the purpose of producing, 

 by that means, larger fruit than usual. This was not his own in- 

 vention, but as far as I recollect, derived from a French journal. 

 Thirty years ago, when I was a boy, I practised this operation, in 

 imitation of him, and thereby obtained larger pears and plums. In 

 repeating this operation of ringing the branches, which I did merely 

 for the purpose of getting larger fruit, I observed that the branches 

 so operated upon always bore the next year. By this reiterated 

 appearance I was led to the idea, that perhaps this mode of ringing 

 the bark might be a means of compelling every unproductive 

 branch to yield fruit. With this view, I cut rings upon a conside- 

 rable number of branches, which as yet showed no blossom ; and 

 found by repeating the experiment the truth of my supposition in- 

 disputably confirmed by experience. 



