SERENO EDWARDS TODD, ESQ. : 



MY DEAB OLD FRIEND AND SCHOOL-MATE, I thank you heartily for the pleasant 

 compliment of linking my name with your savory treatise on my favorite fruit. 

 The very reading over of that goodly catalogue of varieties from the "Early Har- 

 vest " and the " Strawberry," on to the "Newtown Pippin " and the " King-apple " 

 carried me back to the cellar and the apple-bin of my boyhood. When you and 

 I went to the district-school together, we crammed our pockets with " Swaars" or 

 "Greenings" for the noonday lunch. What French confections are to city-bred 

 children, that were a hatful of apples and a pocketful of hickory-nuts to us home- 

 spun lads in the dear old free, broad country. A book that recalls those days is 

 as "sweet to me as the breath of new-mown hay." 



May your latest volume be as popular and useful as its many predecessors from 

 your fertile pen, wisheth 



Your friend of yore, 



THEO. L. CUTLER. 



Lafayette Avemte Church, Brooklyn, Dec. 15, 18TO. 



