PREFACE 



WE have so many excellent large and expensive works 

 on fruit culture, that I should never have thought of 

 writing this one, if its peculiar place had not stood 

 vacant, waiting to be filled. It is the first cheap work 

 on the Orchard and Fruit Garden. Those who, like 

 myself, have had through life some space of land, 

 between a pole and an acre, at command, do not need 

 to be puzzled with lists of hundreds in the selection of 

 the trees they want; their need is one which I have 

 made it my endeavour to supply, i.e. particulars of a 

 few good sorts of fruit trees of all kinds which any 

 careful cultivator can manage, and which may be ob- 

 tained at any good nursery. The sorts named are good, 

 those I most recommend I have tested, and the di- 

 rections given respecting their cultivation will be found 

 plain, concise, and practical. I can only hope my little 

 book will be found useful to all who delight in fruit 

 culture, but who cannot command access to voluminous 

 and expensive works upon the subject. 



E. WATTS. 



Jersey, May, 1867. 



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