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Vessels. As these Vessels are largely 
and healthily formed, to take up their 
Food, — or are deficient; — and, as that Food 
abounds or is wanting,—so is the Plant or 
Tree more or less healthy, flourishing in 
luxuriance of growth, or perishing by de¬ 
grees — the victim of disease and parasitic 
plunder! 
How often is it to be observed, that 
Apple Trees throw forth a fine luxuriant 
Blossom, which, through the kindness of 
Nature, appears, as it were, during a long 
period, to stand still as to growth or decay, — 
thus, giving time to the fibrous Roots to 
push their Mouths in the Earth in search of 
the requisite Nourishment to perfect the 
Fruit. But, alas! it is not to be found, — 
and those Blossoms, whose growth would 
rapidly have proceeded to the formation of 
a Crop of Fruit, had Man done his duty, 
fall off abortive, — form small unwholesome 
