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instead of an abundant one. I have endeavored to prepare a list of such 

 as I should like to have. Others can add to it. 



It is important in selecting trees to get healthy ones. Fruit that will 

 succeed in one place fails in another. There are 1,200 kinds of apples, 

 and 3,000 sorts of pears, and yet a dozen or twenty sorts is all that one 

 wants. There are 60 or 70 sorts of cherries, but half a dozen is all that I 

 would recommend any one man to plant. Large varieties are kept in 

 nurseries, because there are people who are foolish or vain enough to have 

 this great variety. 



A New Jersey friend who desired to stock a place of some four acres 

 with useful fruits, shrubs, and flowers, asked me, a short time since, to 

 make out a list of such things as I would plant myself, for family use. 

 Now, as I suppose that some others may be similarly situated, I will read 

 that list for their benefit. It is not perfect, of course, but it will serve as 

 a chart in place of a better one. 



The figures prefixed to each name, indicate the number of trees or plants 

 of that sort which I would plant, to make a well proportioned orchard or 

 garden. 



Apples. — 3 Early Harvest, 2 Red Astrachan, 3 Sweet Bough, 3 Fall 

 Pippin, 2 Gravenstein, 2 Porter, 6 Baldwin, 6 Rhode Island Greening, 2 

 King Apples, 2 Norton's Melon, 2 Roxbury Russet, 2 Tallman Sweeting — 

 Total 38. 



Pears. — 2 Beurre Giffard, 2 Madelaine, 1 Osburn's Summer, 3 Bartlett, 

 6 Duchess D'Angouleme, 3 Flemish Beauty, 3Seckel, 2 Sheldon, 2 Virga- 

 lieu, 3 Easter Beurre, 2 Lawrence — Total 29. 



Cherries. — 4 Black Tartarian, 1 Black Eagle, 1 Elton, 2 Early Purple 

 Georgia, 2 Yellow Spanish. 



Peaches. — 2 Crawford Early, 2 Crawford Late, 2 Oldmixon Free, 1 

 Sweet Water, 2 Morris White. 



Quinces. — 4 Orange Quince. 



Grapes. — 2 Catawba, 1 Delaware, 1 Rebecca, 2 Diana, 1 Hartford Pro- 

 lific, 4 Isabella, 1 Northern Muscadine. 



Gooseberry. — 6 Houghton's Seedling. 



Raspberries. — 2 dozen Franconi, 2 dozen Orange, 1 Fastolff. 



Straicherries. — 100 Boston Pine, 100 Hovey Seedling, 100 Hooker 

 Seedling, 200 Wilson's Seedling. 



Rhubarb. — 2 Gaboon's Mammoth, 1 Victoria. 



Roses. — Madam LafFay and La Reine, Geant de Battailes, Baron Caroline 

 de Sausal, Prince Albert, Lord Raglan, Blanch Vibert, Mad. Boranquet, 

 Glori de Dijon, Souvenir de Malraaison, Persian Yellow, Queen of the 

 Prairies, Baltimore Belle, Created Moss and Lanci Moss. 



Shrubs. — Wigelia Rosea and Amabalis, Forsythia Virdimence, Spirea 

 Prunifolia, Spirea Reessie, Spirea Sinensis Pendula, Pyrus Japonica, 

 Mahonia Aquifolia, Hardy Azalea, Double Almond, Double Althea Var, 

 Double fl Currant, Siberian Lilac, Large flowering Lilac, Evergreens, 

 Pompone Chrysanthemums, Hardy Phlox, &c. 



