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RAISING APPLE-TREES PROM SEEDS. 
ARTICLE II.—ON RAISING APPLE-TREES FROM SEEDS, 
BY J. TRIMMER, ESQ. 
As there have, at different times, been several enquiries in your 
Journal respecting the raising of apples from seed, it may, perhaps, 
be interesting to some of your readers to know what was my success 
in a small experiment of that kind. 
I collected some apple-pips, all from good sorts of eating apples, 
and sowed them in the spring of the year 1802. During the first 
few years, those which came up, were greatly reduced in number bv 
several accidents, and afterwards by being removed to another gar¬ 
den at an unfavourable season of the year, all but three trees were 
killed, and those much retarded for several years in their growth. 
Of these three plants, one produced fruit the twenty-second year of 
its age, and proved a particularly juicy and very fine flavoured fruit, 
which keeps to the end of November; it is a very abundant bearer, 
but not a very strong growing or very healthy tree. The second 
tree fruited the twenty-fourth year, it is a sweet fruit, but there is 
nothing to render it worth propagating; though I still have the ori¬ 
ginal plant, and it is equal in quality to many sorts still found in old 
gardens. The third tree produced fruit in the twenty-sixth, and I 
consider it a very valuable kind, the fruit is of a good size and ap¬ 
pearance and evidently allied, by its shape, to the Pearmain. It is 
pleasant as an eating apple, I know none that exceeds it for boiling; 
and it keeps particularly well to the end of April without at all 
shriveling. Out of a good many sorts, it kept this year the best of 
any that I had: I used the last in the last week in April, and, I do 
not doubt that many of them would have been good to the middle of 
May. It is a good bearer, and a remarkably healthy tree. I shall 
have much pleasure in sending you specimens of each sort for your 
opinion, in the autumn, and afterwards cuttings for yourself, or such 
of your friends as may deem them worth grafting with. 
I trained, a few years ago, a Nectarine from seed, which fruited 
either the sixth or seventh year, I am not sure which. The fruit it 
produced was very like the Roman Nectarine, but I think rather 
higher flavoured. The flesh parts when ripe, separate very clearly 
from the stone. 
I have stated these circumstances, thinking that, perhaps they 
might be considered such as to induce others to raise fruits from seed, 
which must always be the source from whence we derive new sorts. 
Brentford , May 17//? , 1831. 
