A treatise on the culture of the apple & pear, and on the manufacture of cider & perry / by T. A. Knight.

  • Knight, T. A. (Thomas Andrew), 1759-1838.
Date:
1801
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A treatise on the culture of the apple & pear, and on the manufacture of cider & perry / by T. A. Knight. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    |- » r stock, than to the strong and natural propensity of the plant to return to it's original state. I believe this opinion to be entirely unfounded, but I cannot assert that it is so; and when new kinds are to be obtained from seeds, stocks raised from such cultivated fruits, as grow from cuttings, perhaps would be more eligi- ble, though the goodness of the fruit is never affected by any stock of the same species. When I first began to suspect that my endeavours to propagate 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 from 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