CULTIVATION OF VARIETIES. 47 
altogether superior to some we do speak of, and we 
would not intimate that some of the varieties we are 
not acquainted with may not prove of the first class. 
We shall speak mainly and freely our own experi- 
ence and observations of the peculiarities of the differ- 
ent kinds as manifested during the last ten or twelve 
years or less, and in a plain, distinct manner, give our 
present views of them, not being confined to or having 
much reference to the usual condensed pomological de- 
scriptions or classifications, which we think are not so 
important to the popular mind, and we are not writing 
a work to instruct botanists or learned pomologists. 
The first six varieties named and described would, 
all things considered, be our first choice in a selection 
confined to that number. The next twelve will follow 
very nearly, not entirely, in their regular order as our 
next choice, reference being had to the particular de- 
scriptions for the prominent characteristics of each, as 
fitted for the amateur, the family, or the market-man. 
M’AVOY’S SUPERIOR, 
The new $100 prize seedling of the Cincinnati 
Horticultural Society in 1851. It was originated in 
that city by Mr. D. McAvoy, in 1848, on loamy clay 
soil underlaid with limestone, and was called out 
by the offer of a premium of $100. by that Society, at 
the instance of that energetic horticulturist, Nicholas 
