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we have been gathering from time to time from every quarter, such varieties as 

 we have found to be held in high esteem in their respective locaUties. Two 

 years hence we shall have a superb list of American fruits ; our extensive per- 

 sonal acquaintance with the principal fruit growers and nurserymen in England 

 and on the Continent has enabled us to make arrangements to receive annually 

 any new and valuable fruits that may be brought to notice. Our practice is to 

 plant a specimen tree of every variety cultivated in order to test it under our own 

 observation ; our specimen grounds now contain upwards of two hundred 

 varieties of apples^ one hundred and fifty of pears, sixty of cherries and fifty of 

 small fruits, and so on." 



Fig. 915. — Tice i.ate Patrick Barry. 



In addition to"^the trial of fruits, much attention has also been given to 

 specimen ornamental trees and shrubs, which have always been kept correctly 

 labelled and open to the inspection of the public. 



The accompanying engraving showing a fine specimen of Picea pungens, or 

 Colorado Blue Spruce, is grown upon the grounds of Messrs. EUwanger and 

 Barry. The tree on the left is a fine specimen of cut-leaved Weeping Birch, 



