PREFACE, 



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exhibition of Flowers and Greenhouse Plants, made for the benefit of the 

 poor. The display was certainly most brilliant."=^ 



It is presumed that these Transactions may be rendered of equal value 

 to the Agriculturist as to the Horticulturist ; for the Fruits on which they 

 will chiefly treat and offer information are those, the cultivation of which 

 employs a portion, sometimes a large portion, of many well conducted 

 farms. 



Of the number of barrels of Apples consumed at home, no approxima- 

 tive calculation can be ventured on, but every one is aware that it must be 

 enormous, and even the export of this fruit is rising into importance as a 

 trade ; from Boston alone, in 1845, 10,229 barrels, and in 1846, 11,092 

 barrels, were exported. That the production has not yet overAvhelmed the 

 consumption is evident from the fact, that prices rather tend upwards than 

 downwards, while the supply of the finest sorts by no means equals the 

 demand. How necessary then that the pubHc should have some authentic 

 source to look to for information respecting the cultivation of these fruits, 

 and how imperative on the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, under the 

 w^eight of the liberal patronage bestowed on it, to become that source. 



The commercial value of the Pear, although it has not yet attained the 

 same importance as that of the Apple, has lately received a vast impulse ; 

 nor can there be the least doubt, when our Pear orchards shall have been 

 sufficiently enlarged, and the method of keeping this fruit have improved, 



*There were five exliibitorg of Fruit at the above exliibition, and although Mr. Paquel's name does 

 not appear amongst them, the writer lias understood that the fruit was in the most perfect preservation ; 

 it may therefore be curious, if not useful, to cultivators, to give the names of most of the Apples and 

 Pears which were exhibited. They are extracted from a Catalogue of the exhibition. 



White CalviUe. 



Pomme d'Api. 



Blanc de Vin. 



Calville rouge d'Anjou. 



CalvUle de Sarreguemines. 



Winter Scarlet. 



Jeanson. 



Mart range. 



Golden Pippin. 



Bon Chretien d'hiver. 

 Doyenne d'hiver. 

 St. Germain. 

 Angelique de Bordeaux. 

 Bergamotte Beauvallet. 

 Bergamotte Bernard. 

 Bergamotte Easter. 

 Bergamotte de Parthenay. 

 Bergamotte de Pentecote. 

 Bergamotte, double flowered. 

 Bergamotte fortime6. 



APPLES. 



Berlin Pippin. 

 Reinette de Caux. 

 Reinette du Canada. 

 Reinette franche. 

 Reine des Reinettes. 

 Bardin. 



Mignonne blanche. 

 Vougoyau. 

 Reinette d'Hollande. 



PEARS. 



Bellissime d'hiver. 



Bezi SauspareOle. 



Beurre de Voirchain. 



Beurre Sentin. 



Blancperle. 



Belle Angevine. 



Capucine Van Mons. 



Catillac. 



Cent Couronnes. 



Chartreuse. 



Colmar Van Mons. 



Triomphante. 



Reinette Daniel. 



Belle fille Normande. 



Red Calville. 



Api etoile. 



Reinette grise. 



Reinette rousse des Cannes. 



Eve. 



Saint Sauveur. 



Doyenne d'Alencon. 

 Doyenne jaune d'hiver. 

 Tavernier de Boulogne. 

 Beurre magnifique D'lel. 

 Franc real d'hiver. 

 Beurre ranee. 

 Leon Leclerc de Laval. 

 Josepliine de Malines. 

 Fondante de Noel. 

 Bergamotte de Soulers. 

 Beurre Audusson 



