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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    king advantage of incidental variations, and by propagating from those individuals which approach nearest to our ideas of per- fection, improved varieties of fruit, as well as of animals, are obtained. Much atten- tion has in the present day been paid to the improvement of the latter, whilst the for- mer have been almost entirely neglected : probably from an opinion that these, being natives of warmer climates, of necessity degenerate in this. This opinion is how- ever unfounded; a more favourable climate would no doubt be advantageous to every plant and animal; but the stall and mea- dow counter-balance the defects of our cli- mate in the improvement of the one, and it is probable that the south wall and highly manured border will have the same good effects in the other, and that the changes produced in each will be in pro- portion to the skill and industry of the cultivator.