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and experience, numerous standard works, both British and 

 American, have been carefully consulted. Nor has the au- 

 thor troubled the reader with a useless parade of quotations 

 from different authors, but he has, when deemed proper, 

 adopted their observations where his own were either defec- 

 tive or totally wanting. Some of those to whom he is most 

 obliged are A. F. M. Willock, English author, with American 

 notes by James Mease, M.D.; The British Fruit Gardener 

 and Art of Pruning, by Thomas Abercrombie; Kitts' Trea- 

 tise on Fruit Trees; Bradley on Gardening; Art of Garden- 

 ing; Knight on the Culture of the Apple and Pear; Philo- 

 sophical Transactions; Plan of an Orchard, by George Lirid- 

 ley ; Bucknel's Orchardist, London ; British Fruits ; Guide 

 to the Orchard and Kitchen Garden, by George Lindley, 

 London ; The Orchard and Fruit Garden, by Charles Mcin- 

 tosh, London. American authors: The New England Fruit 

 Book, by R. Manning; The Pomological Manual, by Wm. R. 

 Prince, Ncav York; The American Orchardist, by James 

 Thatcher, M. D., Boston; A Treatise on Horticulture, by Wm. 

 R. Prince, New York; Fruits and Fruit Trees of America, 

 by A. J. Downing, New York and London; Lisects Injurious 

 to Vegetation, T. AY. Harris, Cambridge, Mass. ; The Prac- 

 tical Entomologist; Fruits of America, C. M. Hovey; The 

 American Fruit Book, S. W. Cole; Elliott's Western Fruit 

 Growers' Guide; Barry's Fruit Garden; Bridgman's Fruit 

 Cultivators' Manual; Thomas' Fruit Culturist; Rivers' Mini- 

 ature Fruit Garden; Gardening for the South, Vfilliam N. 

 W^hite; Fuller's Forest Tree Culturist; A View of the Culti- 

 vation of Fruit Trees in the United States and of the Man- 

 agement of Orchards and Cider, by William Coxe, &c. 



In addition to the above works on horticulture and po- 

 mology, we have had access to most of the magazines and 

 periodical works treating on subjects connected with our work. 

 Our correspondence with numerous fruit-growers and nurse- 

 rymen have been valuable and satisfactory. For these es- 

 teemed favors we return our sincere thanks. From the infor- 

 mation they have furnished, coming from different parts of 



