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location of the other, in which their own experience, although 

 limited as to latitude, is very properly brought to aid them in 

 their valuable compilations and publications. This ignorance, 

 however, of what is best for more favorable climates, renders 

 these works less valuable here, although the general culture 

 and management may approximate to that proper for more 

 favorable latitudes. 



Still the question might be asked. Why will not Northern 

 tillage and management and varieties of fruit answer about 

 as well in the South? We reply, as farther objection, that 

 climate makes the difference in all these things, or in the most 

 of them. A list of fine apples and peaches originating and 

 flourishing at the North, and the leading domestic and mar- 

 ket fruits there, when carried to Virginia and farther South, 

 lose their distinctive features: for instance, a winter apple at 

 the North is a fall or early autumn apple here, and autumn 

 fruit there becomes summer fruit here, and so on throughout 

 all the different varieties in the catalogue. Time of cultiva- 

 tion, pruning, modifications in the culture and general treat- 

 ment of the soil, have also some part in making up the differ- 

 ence between Northern and Southern success in cultivation. 



Special and select catalogues, carefully prepared and ar- 

 ranged to suit our latitude and that of more Southern States, 

 as well as portions of the West, will be found in this volume; 

 and the author has spared no pains or expense in consulting 

 pomologists and others of the different States of the South, 

 from Maryland to Georgia, and the West, not only in regard 

 to a list for general cultivation, but for lists for special locali- 

 ties, and for a succession of fruit during the different seasons, 

 suitable for market and home consumption, for cider, and for 

 all other purposes. 



The author is not aware of the existence of any regular 

 and extended treatise on apple and peach culture suitable for 

 the latitudes designated in this work, although numerous val- 

 uable papers and articles have appeared from time to time in 

 our excellent agricultural journals, from which, in compiling 

 certain portions of this work, he has not failed to avail him- 

 self of their invaluable aid ; and, in addition to his own views 



