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dwelling, and will give him a supply of delicious fruit from the latter 
part of July till the middle of October. Let the next row 1 or two be filled 
with Rambo, Porter’s Fall Pippins, Maiden’s Blush, and Jersey Sweets, 
to which he may add if he intends a large orchard, Canada Reinette, and 
Fameuse, and he will not be in want till the middle of January. These 
are to be followed by the Rhode Island Greening, Northern Spy, Ameri¬ 
can Golden Russet, Boston Russet, Lady Apple, Baldwin, Swaar, Peck’s 
Pleasant, Rawles Janette, Herefordshire, Pearmain and Esopus Spitzen- 
berg.* These last varieties arrive at maturity, commencing with the Rhode 
Island Greening, from about the first of January till, under good keeping, 
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July, or even August. I would add here that the Newtown Pippin has 
not been sufficiently proved in this State for me to recommend it, and I 
must even qualify my recommendation of the R. I. Greening, Rambo and 
Spitzenberg, so far as to say, if the planter has not good, dry rich loam 
he had better leave them out of his catalogue. 
So much for selection of Apples, the only tree fruit that has yet been 
fully tested with us. I shall treat of the Peach, the Pear, the Plum and 
the Cherry in another part of this article. 
But before we do that, and even before we commence selecting our trees, 
although we have arrived at the nursery, we must take a short but gen¬ 
eral view of some of the elementary principles of vegetable chemistry 
and physiology. 
The vegetable, like the animal, has a starting point for its existence. 
As in the egg you discover the first rudiment of the chicken centering at 
one point, thence sending out blood-vessels, nerves, muscles, &c., so the 
seed is the centre from which in vegetable life start all the parts which 
constitute the tree. From it the root is sent downward to gather such 
nourishment as is found in the earth ; the stalk with its branches and 
leaves is sent upward partly in search of the nourishment which the earth 
does not afford, partly to protect it from the effects of the burning sum¬ 
mer sun, and partly to develop those organs of reproduction with which 
every vegetable and animal is supplied for the perpetuation of its species. 
* It is not to be understood that this list contains all the best, nor even the best varie¬ 
ties of apples ; but only that they have been tried here, and found suited to our climate 
and soil. 
