A treatise on the culture of the apple and pear, and on the manufacture of cider and perry. [With a postscript concerning tithes] / [T.A. Knight].

  • Knight, T. A. (Thomas Andrew), 1759-1838.
Date:
1797
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A treatise on the culture of the apple and pear, and on the manufacture of cider and perry. [With a postscript concerning tithes] / [T.A. Knight]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Golden Pippin, and a few other fruits whofe time of ripening fuited the fituation in which I wiflied to plant. In the courfe of the enfuing win- ter the young trees were dug up and (their roots having been retrenched) were again planted in the fame places. This mode of treatment had the de- lired effedl of making them produce bloflbms at two years old. I fufFered only one or two fruits to remain on each tree, which in confequence attained nearly three times their com- mon fize with a very high degree of maturity and perfeftion j and the appearance of the plants I raifed from their feeds fo much excelled any