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PREFACE. 



IN publishing a third and enlarged edition 

 of this Manual, we have retained the outline 

 drawings of most of those Pears found in the 

 previous edition, they being proved from ex- 

 perience to be desirable kinds. Many vari- 

 eties of Fruit, particularly Pears, are, so far as 

 our own observation and experience go, hard, 

 ly worthy of cultivation : they are therefore 

 omitted. We have not inserted drawings of 

 Apples or Peaches, from the difficulty of iden- 

 tifying these fruits by a single specimen. Our 

 object, as said in the former edition, has been 

 to bring together the experience of practical 

 cultivators in a condensed form, and at a low 

 price. 



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