Select List of Fndtsfor a Kitchen Garden, 327 



In a future communication, I may say something respecting 

 the selection of clierries, having paid considerable attention 

 to them. Respectfully yours, 



Michael Floy, Jr. 



Harlcem JWrsenj^ Aug. 4lh, 1835. 



For the above excellent list of fruits, our correspondent, 

 whose query was inserted in our last, as well as all our 

 readers, must be exceedingly indebted to Mr. Floy. His 

 experience has enabled him to ascertain the true character 

 of all the varieties he names. We have no doubt but he 

 wUl find many cultivators of fruit in this vicinity, who have 

 with regret, like himself, discovered that the " glorious 

 golden pippin," as many of our transatlantic friends have 

 termed it, will not bear its loads of glittering fruit under our 

 dear sky and scorching sun. Indeed, in Britain, it is no 

 longer that universally cultivated and deservedly admired 

 fruit it was fifty years since : it has degenerated from its 

 original excellence, and this degeneracy has been a subject 

 of much discussion among those who have professed a con- 

 siderable knowledge of vegetable physiology, and at the 

 head of which may be named the intelligent president of 

 the London Horticultural Society, (p. 265). It was at one 

 time, in fact, supposed by many cultivators, that it would 

 be lost to the English gardens for ever. Proceeding upon 

 the idea, which Mr. Knight considers a true one, that all 

 varieties of fruit have but a short existence, this would 

 have been naturally supposed ; but it has been doubted by 

 some, and the cause of its failure to produce the golden 

 pippin of former years, ascribed to improper treatment, 

 and undue attention to its cultivation. In Mr. Floy's list 

 of uncertain kinds in our climate, is also placed that beauti- 

 ful fruit, the Gravenstein, and which is so highly rated in 

 foreign pomological works : the court of Wick pippin, 

 court-pendu, and several others, which make such a brilliant 

 appearance, figured in the Pomological Magazine. It is to 

 American apples that we must look for varieties that will 

 repay the cultivation : let them be improved as the English 

 have improved theirs and no fear need be apprehended that 

 our gardens will not show to every lover of this noble fruit, a 

 more numerous and finer selection of apples, than any other 

 country can produce. Other communications in answer to 

 "An Amateur," from any of our correspondents, will be 

 inserted with pleasure. 



We shall be exceedingly gratified to give Mr. Floy's 

 intended paper on the cherry, and shall look forward with 

 pleasure to acknowledge its receipt. — Conds. 



