: 



SKETCH OF 



THE EVOLUTION OF OUR 

 NATIVE FRUITS 



It would be curious to speculate as to what our pomology would 

 have been if the civilization from which it, and we ourselves, have 

 sprung, had had its birthplace along the southern shores of our great 

 lakes, the northern of the Gulf of Mexico, and the intervening Mis- 

 sissippi, instead of the Levant, Mesopotamia and the Nile, and our 

 old world had been open to us as a new world less than four 

 hundred years ago. Asa Gray. 



BY 



L. H. BAILEY 



SECOND EDITION 



THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 



LONDON: MACMILLAN & CO.. LTD. 



1906 



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