ACKNOWLEDGMENTS TO AUTHORITIES, 

 CORRESPONDENTS, &c. 



THE descriptions of the fruits contained in the following pages 

 are drawn from much personal observation, and from the most 

 authentic testimonies and authorities, and from those alone on whom 

 we may with confidence implicitly rely. Although most of them 

 are already in our country, and have been already proved, yet 

 many of them are new, and of very recent introduction. 



To the more common or proper names, I have in many cases 

 annexed the botanical or descriptive names of the species or va- 

 rieties ; this being the only one and universal name, by which they 

 are alike known in every part of civilized America and of Europe. 

 I have also, to avoid confusion in the nomenclature, endeavored 

 generally to preserve, unaltered, the original or proper names, in the 

 language of their own native country. These will serve in a meas- 

 ure to identify, and also to indicate the country and the climate to 

 which they properly belong. 



My obligations to the late Mr. Lowell I have elsewhere acknowl- 

 edged, and my obligations to Gen. Dearborn, the first President 

 of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society. I am also under very 

 particular obligations to Mr. Manning, of Salem, for the many de- 

 scriptions he has afforded me. All those articles marked R. M. are 

 described on his authority, and are such as he has proved them to 

 be in our climate. I have availed also of the valuable communi- 

 cations of Messrs. Downer, of Dorchester ; Buel, of Albany ; S. 

 G. Perkins, of Boston; of Col. Carr, of Bartrara's Botanic Garden, 

 near Philadelphia. I am also particularly indebted to the great in- 

 telligence and researches of Mr. Robert Thompson, of the Garden 

 of the London Horticultural Society, and to Messrs. Ronald, Lee, 

 Forrest, and other distinguished and intelligent cultivators in his 

 vicinity ; MM. Dalbret, Jamin, Vilmorin, Margat, and Lusette, and 

 other intelligent individuals in or near Paris; M. Emilien De Wael, 

 of Antwerp, in Belgium ; and also to those very numerous individ- 

 uals of our own country whom I have elsewhere named. 



LIST OF AUTHORS AND WORKS QUOTED 

 OR REFERRED TO 



ADLUM. Memoir on the Cultivation of the Vine in America, 

 and the best Mode of making Wine, by John Adlum. 12mo. Wash- 

 ington, 1828. 



ANNALES D'HORTICULTURE. Annales de la Societe d'Horticul- 

 ture de Paris. A valuable publication, in monthly numbers. 8vo. 



