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and autumn will be the finest I have ever had. My trees are the 

 wonder of the neighbourhood, and though we are situated in the 

 Vale of York, with a severe winter temperature, and in summer, 

 given sun-power enough, to create an ample quantity of sac- 

 charine, the sugar of fruits, as it is said, which is the freight 

 they pay to birds to have their seeds carried afar upon their 

 wings. Quantity and quality is what I am anxious to obtain, 

 and naturally enough, for it is in this way that the trade is 

 supplied and the public benefited and satisfied. Quantity and 

 quality, not of gross mis-shapen fruit, but with a comely form, if 

 I may be pardoned saying so, a fresh soft skin, and with that 

 improved bloom the cultivator ever endeavours to produce, and 

 is in wild raptures with when he has obtained it. I am very 

 satisfied so far, and those most qualified to judge have expressed 

 themselves astonished at the progress I have made ; but I 

 certainly think this year will open out more markedly the 

 thoroughly practical character of the system. I shall very soon 

 I hope be able to judge of the effect produced in obtaining brisk- 

 ness of flavour and a more powerful flavour accompanied with 

 what I think I may call saccharine softness, in other words, a 

 strength in flavour accompanied with softness and sweetness. 

 To sum up my remarks, I will only add : — 



1. My method is that of budding noted varieties on mature 

 noted stocks, and this must be done as early in June as the 

 young wood will allow, for the earlier in the season the quicker 

 the result. I have had a growth of three yards of a Jargonelle, 

 budded on Broxworth Park in one season, not the season in 

 which the bud is put in, for, as in rose-budding, I always like 

 the bud to remain dormant, and then let it go on as quick as 

 you like, or rather as quick as nature orders, and then you ought 

 to have fruit in two years' time with the certainty of having a 

 good growth of wood and an array of bloom-buds year after year, 

 and, given a merry season of sunshine and shade, rain, mist, 

 moisture, and drought in proper proportions, fruit, not merely to 

 rejoice the eye, but likewise make glad the heart of man through 

 the perfection of flavour. Say, bud this June, 1897 ; next April, 

 1898, growth will begin, and in the early or late autumn of 1898 

 you may have a few fruit, with the certainty of a much larger 

 return the following years. 



2. In regard to the subjects I have treated — not one of them 



