DESULTORY REMARKS. 



THE POMOLOGICAL GARDEN was commenced in 1823, with the de- 

 sign of forming a large collection of specimen trees of such varieties of 

 foreign and native fruits, as were hardy enough to endure ihe inclemency 

 of a northern winter. After a strict examination of the produce of these 

 trees, carefully comparing the wood, the leaf and the fruit, with the fig- 

 ures and descriptions in the most popular works on Pomology, it was in- 

 tended to select for permanent cultivation, those varieties which were at 

 once fitted to the climate of New England, and of high merit in them- 

 selves. In furtherance of this purpose, we have assiduously culled 

 from American catalogues all that we judged worthy of trial, and im- 

 ported from the first European establishments, the fruits most in repute 

 with the writers of their respective countries. We have never limited 

 ourselves to one specimen, but have in every instance, procured trees of 

 each name from many different sources, in order the more surely to ar- 

 rive at correct conclusions respecting their identity, as well as to multi- 

 ply our means of estimating their comparative value. 



For donations of scions we are indebted to the liberality of many gen- 

 tlemen of our own country, who have imported choice fruits from Europe 

 for their own gardens ; to the London Horticultural Society, and to the 

 learned Doctor Van Mons, of Brussels, from whom we have received 

 most of those new and admirable Pears which he has, for many years, 

 produced on his own grounds, or obtained from the horticulturists of 

 Belgium and Germany. We have also annually collected scions of all 

 the new fruits of American origin, and propose to continue the collection 



