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GUIDE TO THE ORCHARD AND FRUIT GARDEN. 



in whole volumes, as near as may be of 100 plates, 

 anil about '220 papes of text in each, taking care not 

 to iliviile natural families, anil following the gene- 

 ral arrangement of Torrey iSi Gray's llora of North 

 America, or (;ra)"s U(.)taiiical Textlloolc; anil will 

 comprise 8 or It* such volumes. The first volume 

 ■will be ready the ensuing autumn, anil the others 

 will succeeil at the rate of two volumes a year un- 

 til tlie whole is linisheil. The price to subscribers 

 is lixeil at six dollaus per volume of 100 plates 

 (or at that rate when the minibcr of plates, as may 

 sometimes liapiien, consiilcrably exceeils 100.) 



Subscribers who pay for the voluine in ailvance, 

 will have the same delivered by mail, or other- 

 wise, /rce of expense- All orders to be addressed 

 to Wiley &. Putnam, Bi-oadway, New- York. 



•»• After the completion of the work, the price 

 will be advanced." 



[Xo person in America, we may safely 

 say, is so well qualified for this undertaking, 

 as the Professor in the botanical chair at 

 Cambridge. We shall look with no little 

 irnpaiience for the appearance of this work. 

 It will undoubtedly be one of the most inte- 

 resting and acceptable scientific publications 

 of the day. — Ed.] 



j1 Guide to the Orchard and Fruit Garden : or an 

 account of the most valuable Fruits cultivated in 

 Great Britain. i?i/ George Lixdlev. With 

 additions of all the most valuable fruits cultiva- 

 ted in America, ^-c ; by Michael Floy. j1 

 new edition, with an Appendix, describing many 

 American Fruits not mentioned in the former 

 edition. New-York, J. C. Biker, 1846. 

 Lindley's Guide to the Orchard is undoubt- 

 edly one of the very best English works on Po- 

 mology that have ever appeared. Its author, 

 George Lindley, Avas a horticulturist of 

 great practical knowledge, and had both un- 

 usual tact and large experience in Pomolo- 

 gy. We have always been glad to bear 

 testimony to the high value of his labors, 

 and to the excellence of his " Guide to the 

 Orchard." 



This Avork was first published in 1S31. 

 We believe there was never but a single 

 edition of it published in England. Mr. 

 Floy did the American public, and the cul- 

 tivators of fruit, great service, by republish- 

 ing the work in this country in 1833, with 



descriptions of such native fruits as were 

 then considered of most importance. 



It is now, however, fifteeji years since 

 Lindley's Guide to the Orchard was writ- 

 ten. Since that time, the advance that lias 

 been made in Pomology, and especially in 

 the test and comparison of fruit, is indeed 

 very great. The Horticultural Society of 

 London, alone, have done more for the pro- 

 gress of this subject in that time, thafi luas 

 ever do?ie i?i a century before. In this coun- 

 try, Pomology has grown to be a matter of 

 general study and interest, almost wholly 

 since that time. We were therefore not a 

 little surprised on receiving a copy of this 

 new edition of Lindley, by Mr. Floy. We 

 expected, at least, to find a complete revision 

 of those sorts which have been, since the is- 

 sue of that work, proved and acknowledged 

 synonymous, incorrect, or the merits of 

 which had been rated too high or too low. 



We find, on the contrary, that the whole 

 body of the work remains just as it was when 

 issued in London, by Lindley, fifteen years 

 ago, or by Mr. Floy, in New-York, thirteen 

 years ago. The reader, therefore, must look 

 upon the work as representing the best state 

 of knowledge on this subject at that time, and 

 not at the present moment. The descrip- 

 tion of all the then well established sorts is 

 excellent. Had its author, (the father of the 

 present Professor Lindley,) lived till the 

 present moment, he could have rendered 

 the work as perfect as any other person 

 whatever. But he would have regretted to 

 see the work again reprinted in the face of 

 all the discoveries, proofs, and experiences 

 of fifteen years in the gardening world, 

 without taking advantage of them. In 

 peaches and pears especially, he described 

 many sorts as distinct, which, with the 

 larger experience that has since been ob- 

 tained, every pomologist knows to be sy- 

 nonymous with others. Whoever, there- 



