PREFATORY REMARKS BY THE EDITOR, 



The Author and Editor have been at great pains to render 

 this work, the first of the kind published in the South, com- 

 plete and exhaustive in the specialties of which it treats — in 

 a word, a practical standard treatise for the farmer's and 

 fruit-grower's library. 



The numerous select lists of fruits for the various geological 

 sections of each state are valuable, and may be implicitly re- 

 lied on. As to this feature, it is unique and exceptional. 



Fruit nomenclature, hitherto in such confusion, has received 

 the attention its importance merits, and incorrect names have 

 been signified under the requisite changes. 



The Pilot and Albemarle Pippin, celebrated apples of this 

 Piedmont country, have been for the first time introduced 

 into a standard book. Shakspeare surely would have enjoyed 

 them, as witness. Justice Shallow to Falstaff : "You shall see 

 mine orchard, where in an arbour we will eat a last year's 

 pippin of my own grafting," and again, Sir Hugh Evans, in 

 the " Merry Wives of Windsor, " " I will make an end of my 

 dinner — there's pippins and cheese to come." 



En passant, with deference, though the American Pomo- 

 logical Society in its Catalogue places the Newtown pippin, as 

 the general name, and the Albemarle pippin as the local 

 name for the same apple, yet we apprehend it is still a question 

 which name ought to have precedence — a point to be in- 

 quired into. 



As to foreign varieties of apples and peaches, but few have 

 been tested with satisfaction. Of the former, some of Rus- 

 sian origin, such as the Tetofsky, have met with favor in the 

 No rthwest. 



Southern pomologists should make trial of varieties of 

 Southern Europe, and such parts of Asia, as in topical 

 aspects are under like isothermal lines. 



