CATALOGUE OF 1S70. 419 



PLAN OF THE CATALOGUE. 



The varieties are numbered at tlie extreme left, and also at the left of the 

 page occupied by the column of remarks, to avoid confusion in tracin.^ the 

 connection. Synonyms are introduced in a few cases only, and italicised. 1\\ 

 the column devoted to descriptions, the distinguishing peculiarities of the 

 fruit, with its season and origin, are more or less fully given by the use of 

 abbreviations. Those applicable to the entire catalogue appearing at its com- 

 mencement; and those applying locally, at the heads of the sections to which 

 they appertain. In each of the columns headed use and value, the figures 

 1 to 10 express the gradations of value, for the purpose to which the column 

 is devoted ; the first two columns having reference strictly to the cpiality of the 

 fruit separately considered, and the third to all the qualities, whether of tree 

 or fruit, that affect the question of profitableness. Under the head of local- 

 ity, a sub-column is assigned to each of the five districts into which the lower 

 peninsula of the State is divided, such division being as follows, viz. : 1st dis- 

 trict, the eastern tier of counties, from the southern boundary of the State 

 northward as far as its capacity for fruit culture is known. 2d district, the 

 mass of interior counties, omitting the tier along the southern boundary, and 

 those adjoining Lake Michigan. 3d district, the south tier of counties, omit- 

 ting Monroe on the east and Berrien on the west. 4th district, the lake shore 

 counties from the south line of Berrien northward to and includins: Ottawa 

 county. 5th district, the counties adjacent to Lake Michigan and its bays 

 from the south line of Muskegon county as far northward as their capacity 

 for fruit culture is known. In these columns a * indicates that the variety 

 which it represents is known to succeed in the district; ** that it is especially 

 valuable, and a f that it is on trial and found promising. Many kinds of very 

 little value are added, for the purpose of showing by the low values given 

 them, and by remarks in the column for that purpose that, though more or 

 less grown in the State, their farther cultivation is not intended to be encour- 

 aged. The leading advantage to the fruit culturists of the State, sought in 

 this catalogue, is to supply all who may wish to plant with a distinct purpose 

 in view, the means of selecting wisely with reference to such purpose, from 

 the varieties which shall have been properly tested in the State and found best 

 adapted to the special purpose they shall have in view. 



