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good ones under different names. The American Pippin, more appropriately 

 called the Grindstone by some, has an imposing name; yet with a good steel you 

 may strike fire from its fruit; while the White apple. Gate apple, Bellmont and 

 Waxen apple, are all sold to us as first rate winter apples; and so they are, but 

 when they come to bearing you have one good variety with four names. So 

 with the Butter Pear, White Beurre, St Michael, Yellow Butter, Virgalieu and 

 White Doyenne — all bone of one bone and Jlesh of one Jlesh. And so on to the 

 end of the catalogue. 



Whether it be done through inattention, or a trick of the trade, the bad effects 

 of this practice are the same, and are known and felt by all cultivators of obser- 

 vation, and ought to be discouraged. 



The best remedy, in my opinion, is for the State Board of Agriculture to pub- 

 lish, in all their reports, a carefully selected list of standard varieties — admitting 

 from time to time well tested new ones, and discarding such as on fair trial should 

 not prove worthy of general cultivation. By this means catalogues would soon 

 be simplified, the cultivation of fruit become a popular pursuit, and eminently 

 useful to all. I would like to have the opinion of my old friends Reuben Rea- 

 gan and Aaron Alldredge on such a subject — men who from long experience and 

 close observation can detect the error of a single tree in a nursery, by the pecu- 

 liarities of its wood and leaf, would put us right on such a subject. 



Now, I have over one hundred and fifty varieties of fruit trees in bearing, and 

 some fifty more coming on that have not yet fruited ; but to name the different 

 varieties would answer no useful purpose. I will, however, name a list suffi- 

 ciently large in variety, to answer all useful purposes, and which seem to 

 promise well with us : 



Cherries. 

 May Duke, Bigarreau or Yellow Spanish, 



Early Purple Guign, Belle de Choicy, 



American Heart, Black Tartarien, 



Elton, Napoleon. 



Plums. 



Green Gage, Lawrence's Favorite, 



Imperial Gage, Smith's Orleans, 



Bleeker's Gage, Coe's Golden Drop, 



Washington, Columbia. 

 Jefferson, 



Peaches. 



Early York, George the IV., 



Large Early York, Morris' White, 



Crawford's Early, Old Mixen Free, 



Crawford's Late, Royal George, 



Bergen's Yellow, Red Cheeked Malecotien. 

 Gross Mignonne, 



