VI PREFATORY REMARKS BY THE EDITOR. 



The Male Carle, the famous commercial apple of Italy, is 

 well adapted to the South. 



As the statistics of census of 1870 teach, horticultural 

 progress is making rapid advances, and soon our Southland 

 will be famed for its supremacy in fruit culture. 



Pomological Societies should be established in every county, 

 and chairs of Horticulture and Pomology well endowed, be 

 founded in every college. 



Towa is in advance of Virginia in this regard. 



The manufacture of the work is creditable to Richmond 

 enterprise. 



Mr. Kennedy Palmer, artist and attached of the Richmond 

 Enquirer Office, executed the engravings. As a work of 

 this character should be both critical and comprehensive, it, 

 of course, required great labor and peculiar qualifications in 

 the author to produce it ; hence, whenever preceding writers 

 have described any matter well and clearl}^ he has endorsed 

 them in their exact lan<]:uaore. The results of his own ex- 

 perience are embodied in the work. 



Appropriately to the foregoing, I may invoke the saying of 

 a wise man, alius alio plus invenire j^otest ; and to the same 

 intent that of my Lord Coke, JiiJiil simul inventum et per- 

 feetum est. 



In conclusion, let me direct the attention of farmers and 

 fruit-growers to the study of botany, entomology and meteor- 

 ology, as bearing specially upon pomology, which is now a 

 science; and the principles of the facts upon which it is based 

 should be thoroughly comprehended. 



J. W. FiTZ. 



Keswick^ Va. 



