116 BOOK OF FRUITS. 



GREEN FRUIT. 



Small Sorts. Early Green Hairy Hep- 

 burn Green Prolific Glenten Green Pit- 

 maston Green Gage. 



Larger Sorts. Collier's Jolly Angler 

 Edwards' Jolly Tar. 



In closing this first manual, we here subjoin 

 an extract from Lindley, one of the most cel- 

 ebrated modern writers on Pomology, on the 

 method of producing new varieties of fruit. 

 He says, 



" The power of procuring intermediate va- 

 rieties by the intermixture of the pollen and 

 stigma of two different parents is, however, 

 that which most deserves consideration. We 

 all know that hybrid plants are constantly pro- 

 duced in every garden, and that improvements 

 of the most remarkable kind are yearly occur- 

 ring in consequence. Experiments are, how- 

 ever, it may be supposed, sometimes made 

 without the operator being exactly aware of 

 either of the precise nature of the action to 

 which he is trusting for success, or of the lim- 

 its within which his experiments should be 

 confined. 



