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Gardens and orchards. 
As the better kinds of fruit liquors are now in sufficient 
demand at good prices, the way to maks fruit trees 
profitable, is to cultivate the better kinds, and increase 
their number; and there is no doubt but a persevering 
industry might multiply and increase new varieties, 
equal to any formerly produced, and thus promote, not 
only individual profit, but national advantage, by in¬ 
creasing a produce that might, in some degree, super¬ 
sede the importation of foreign wines. 
The stire apple is now said to be propagated with 
tolerable success, by suckers from the roots, or rather 
by young wood pulled out of the crown of the tree; 
perhaps, some of the more valuable old fruits may be 
longer perpetuated by this means than by grafting. 
Mr. Marshal proposes layering the crown shoots, in 
tubs of earth elevated for that purpose. 
He farther advises the fruit growers to relieve them- 
selves from that bondage, which suffers dealers, from 
all quarters of the kingdom, to impose, in open convo¬ 
cation, what prices they please for fruit liquor, in a 
plentiful year ; but these objects of reform and im¬ 
provement must originate with the land owner, and 
not with the tenant, who has only the use of the pre¬ 
mises for a time uncertain. The present year, 1807, 
is a partial, but not a general, hit of fruit, supposed 
to be from one-half to two-thirds of a full crop, in some 
places a full hit, and in great profusion, and in other 
places partial failures; the apples, generally’, a better 
crop than the pears; a very large quantity has been 
sent this season, in its natural fruit state, packed up 
in casks, along the canals to the northern counties. 
In the hop grounds at Lower Areley, fruit trees are 
planted upon every fourth seven-foot ridge, at about 
eleven 
