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advantage attending this mode of propagation, as the trees in this situation would enjoy all the benefits of a better climate, whilst their blossoms being expanded before those of the neighbouring orchards, would escape all chance of being impregnated by the farina of inferior kinds. With a view to try the effects of this experiment, I prepared stocks of the best kind of apple I knew, which could be propagated by cutting, and after planting them against a south wall in extremely rich mould, I grafted them with the stire golden pippin, and a few other fruits, whose time of ripening suited the situation in which I wished to plant.

In the course of the ensuing winter, the young trees were dug up, and (their roots having been retrenched), were again planted in the same places. This mode of treatment had the desired effect of making some of them produce blossoms at two years old.

I suffered only one or two fruits to remain on each tree, which, in consequence, attained nearly three times their common size, with a very high degree of maturity and perfection; and the appearance of the plants I raised from their seeds, so much excelled any I had formerly obtained from the same fruits taken from the orchard, that, I think, I can confidently recom-