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Flemish or French name, which is, perhaps, the only thing that 

 can be said in their favor. And thus, we find many gardens, 

 which once were noted for the quantity and excellence of their 

 fruits, now scarcely having one out of some hundred sorts, 

 which is fit to eat, and in consequence, the owner is often 

 obliged to apply to the nearest fruiterer to complete his 

 dessert. We would recommend to all, who have it in their 

 power to propagate fi*om seeds of approved sorts, particularly 

 if they have been assisted in the important office of impreg- 

 nation, by destroying carefully the pollen of one sort, and 

 introducing that of another, as the most likely means of pro- 

 ducing a variety participating of the good properties of both ; 

 and, when the young plants are of sufficient strength, to plant 

 them out in some favorable situation in the shrubbery, or 

 otherwise, until they prove by their fruits whether they do or 

 do not deserve a place in the garden. By judiciously ar- 

 ranging them in the shrubbery or arboratum, they will har- 

 monize with the other trees, and, at certain seasons, produce 

 an agreeable effect, either by their flowers or their fruit. 

 Those which are likely from their habit, to be approved of as 

 distinct sorts, may be brought to fruit sooner by grafting, or 

 buclding them upon an established tree. It will happen, in 

 most gardens, that a particular sort may have been by accident 

 planted, the firuit of which may be of little value ; in such 

 cases, let this tree be fixed upon for a stock, on which to 

 work any of the seedlings, that it may be desirous, from their 

 appearance or other causes, to be proved, sooner than they 

 would be by remaining on the seedling tree. By this method, 

 a gi'eat many may be proved annually without the least incon- 

 venience. The necessity of renewing fruit-trees by seed, for 

 the purpose of either renewing the identical sort, or endea- 

 vouring to procure a new or a better one, is obvious, as the 

 various methods of propagation by grafting are, in no in- 

 stance a renewal of the sort, or, in other words, making a 

 new or young tree, for the case is wholly different. Every 

 tree so propagated is no more than a prolongation of a part of 

 the parent tree, by being amputated, and made fast to another 

 root by means of grafting. There is no such thing as a new 

 or young tree, excepting those, which are really raised from 



