FRUIT CATALOGUE FOR 1882. 



PREFATORY NOTE. 



Owing to tlie pressure of other matter, it was thought best to publish our 

 volume for 1880 without the Fruit Catalogue, and by so doing we liave 

 learned, perhaps, better than we otherwise could have done, the appreciation 

 of tliis work by the fruit-growers of Michigan and adjoining States. Numbers 

 of inquiries have been made as to whether the publication of the Catalogue had 

 been permanently discontinued. It is to be lioped that those who seem so 

 deeply interested in this work of our Catalogue committee will not forget to 

 show their satisfaction by rendering such assistance as they can in the labor of 

 revision. The Catalogue is expected to be an epitome of the experience of our 

 Michigan fruit-growers, and its accuracy depends upon the readiness with 

 which they respond to the interrogations of the chairman of the committee. 



It is with pleasure we note the adoption of similar methods in other States; 

 let the good work go on, and when each State that grows fruit extensively 

 shall have a catalogue of.j^ts own, the American Pomological Society may Avell 

 look with pride upon the offspring of its own early undertakings in a valuable 

 field of enterprise. 



The requests and acknowledgments of the committee cannoc be better 

 expressed than in the following communication which was received in con- 

 nection with the copy for the revised edition : 



South Haven, January 3tl,lSS2. 

 Sec. Chas. W. Garfield. 



Dear Sir — In submitting the second revision of the Fruit Catalogue, I may be 

 allowed to again invite the attention of those interested in fruit culture to the fact 

 of its proposed annual revision, and to the consequent necessity for the collection, 

 during the year, of such facts and experiences as may serve as aids in rendering the 

 result more perfect, and therefore more valuable. With this purpose, we urge all 

 persons into whose hands tiiis Catalogue may come to communicate to the member 

 of the committee for his district, or to the general chairman, at any time during 

 the year, any facts within their knowledge calculated to aid in rendering such 

 revision more perfect. 



The desired information, to be available for the purpose, should be received early 

 in November, in order that the revision may be completed in time for submission at 

 the annnal meeting of the society, on the first Wednesday in December. 



Aside from the reports of the several members of the committee of the past year, 

 the chairman takes this opportunity to especially acknowledge the receipt of valu- 

 able aid from CD, I.awton, of Lawton, Van Buren county; also from George C. 



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