By Thomas Andrew Knight, Esq. 567 



but a good crop of acorns is now a thing of rare occurrence, 

 upon the value of whjch the farmer has almost wholly ceased 

 to calculate, even upon those farms which contain extensive 

 groves of Oaks. The trees nevertheless blossom annually 

 very freely, but no fruit is produced. Many causes may be 

 assigned for the diminished produce of Orchards, and of 

 Fruit Trees generally ; but the blossoms of the Oak must be 

 now as capable of bearing cold as they were half a century 

 ago, and their failing to produce acorns can only be attri- 

 buted to the agency of some external cause ; and I am wholly 

 unable to conjecture any such cause except the above men- 

 tioned. 



