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were more plentiful, and finer, than either apricots before, or 
apples after them. I think the pears and apples were more de- 
fective in size than in number, for they were remarkably small. 
The harvest was all showery ; but in August the weather was 
more moderate and tolerable than in September, when there 
were several great rains and storms. 
The autumn, beginning with a few of the last days of Sep- 
tember, was in general fine, fair, open, and mild, with moderate 
winds, and when calm, perfectly so ; a good wheat seed time, 
which came up well ; but it was wetter again the end of No- 
vember, and in December, which kept the ground (already much 
soaked by the very wet summer) from drying so much as it 
otherwise might have done. It continued, however, an open 
winter, not much frost, and that not severe. 
On the Recovery of injured Trees. 
About the year 1788 or 1789, a Lucombe oak was planted, 
the top of which might be about six feet high, but was broken 
off in coming down. In spring, the tree put out at the two 
highest buds, but much better at some lower ones. In 1791, 
the two highest buds again put out, yet, as before, very indif- 
ferently ; however, a lower bud, about five feet high, put out a 
strong shoot, about fifteen inches long ; but, as side branches 
are apt to do, it did not grow upright, but slanting. In winter, 
I fixed that strong shoot upright, by tying it to another shoot, 
which came out of the opposite side of the tree; and, in 1792, 
it made a very strong, straight, and upright shoot, three feet 
nine inches long, and as thick as a moderate finger, and has 
continued thriving ever since. The tree is now about eighteen 
