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the old fruits would not be successful, I selected the seeds of some of the best kinds, with an intention to propagate new ones; but I soon found that many of the young plants, (particularly those of the golden pippin), were nearly as much diseased as the trees which produced them. I several times raised three or four plants, from seeds taken from one apple, and when this had been produced by a diseased tree, I have had not only as many distinct varieties as there were seeds; but some were much diseased, and others apparently healthy, though the seeds were sown in the same soil, and the plants afterwards grew within two feet of each other, in the same nursery. Grafts having been inserted from each, retained the habits of the tree from which they were taken.

Few, however, if any of them, appeared to possess a sufficient degree of vigour to promise me much success in their cultivation, (except in very favourable situations), should their fruit be such as answered my wishes.

Having before observed, that all the old fruits were free from disease when trained to a south wall, I thought it not improbable that seedling plants, raised from them, would be equally healthy, and that this would not be the sole