The History of Crossbreeding

Mr. Knight conducted his celebrated experiments on fruits, which rewarded him with some varieties that were highly esteemed. Many varieties of the apple were collected and had been proved to afford in mixtures with each other the finest cider. A tree of each was then obtained by grafting upon a paradise stock, and these trees were trained to a south wall or if grafted on Siberian crab to a west wall till they afforded blossoms. Each blossom of this species of fruit contains about twenty chives or males, stamens, and generally five pon tols or females,. The males stand in a circle just within the bases of the petals, and are formed of slender threads, each of