THE 



FRUITS AND FRUIT-TREES 



AMERICA 



THE CULTURE, PROPAGATION, AND MANAGEMENT, IN THE 

 GARDEN AND ORCHARD, OF FRUIT-TREES GENERALLY ; 



DESCRIPTIONS OF ALL THE FINEST VARIETIES OF FRUIT, NATIVE 

 AND FOREIGN, CULTIVATED IN THIS COUNTRY. 



By a. J. downi:ni^. 



COERESPONDIKQ MEMBER OP THE ROTAL BOTANIC SOCIETY OF LONDON; AND OK TUB HOKTK'Ul. 



TUBAL SOCIETIES OF BERLIN, THE LOW COUNTRIES, MASSACnUSETTS, 



PENNSYLVANIA, INDIANA, CINCINNATI, ETC. 



Second Revision and Comction^ icitJi large Additions, including the Ap2)eudices ( f 

 1872 to 1881, and containing many New Varieties. 



By CHARLES DOWNING. 



With nearly 400 Outline Illustrations of Fruit. 



NEW YOEK : 



lOHN ^VILEY & SONS, 15 ASTOK PLACE, 

 1881. 



