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REVIEWS. 



Art. I. The American Fruit Book ; contaiiiing Directions 

 for raising, propagating, and managing Fruit Trees, 

 Shrubs and Plants ; with a Description of the best varie- 

 ties of Fruit, includiiig tiew atid valuable kinds ; embel- 

 lished and illustrated with numerous Engravings of Fruits, 

 6(*c. By S. W. Cole, Editor of the New England Farmer, 

 &c. 1 vol. 12mo. pp. 288. Boston. 1849. 



After so full and explanatory a title, we need scarcely 

 mention that this little manual, by Mr. Cole, is a very useful 

 aid in the spread of more information upon the cultivation of 

 Fruits and Fruit Trees. The author is well known as ed- 

 itor of several agricultural papers, and as having, in that 

 capacity, a wide acquaintance and extensive correspondence 

 with various fruit-growers. " These advantages," as he in- 

 forms us in the preface, "with diligence and zeal in turn- 

 ing them to account, with our own practice from early life, in 

 the pleasant pursuit of growing fruits, and in raising and 

 managing trees in the nursery and orchard, may justify us in 

 offering this work as the result of long experience and exten- 

 sive observation, combined with the opinions of a great many 

 of the most inteUigent fruit-growers and able pomologists in 

 the country." 



Every work which conveys information on the culture of 

 fruit, be it ever so small, we hail as an important aid in the 

 dissemination of a taste for good fruit ; and when, as in the 

 present instance, this information is furnished at the cheap- 

 est rate, it must be highly beneficial in opening the way, 

 where more expensive and scientific works would not be read. 

 Mr. Cole has, therefore, in his compact volume, done a good 

 service, and though " of humble pretensions, both in size and 

 price,^^ it will not be the less welcome. 



The volume commences with a treatise on the culture of 

 fruit trees generally, viz., Soil, — Situation, — Propagation by 

 budding. Grafting, &c., — Manures — Transplanting — Prun- 

 ing — Training— Effects of Climate — Dwarfing — Insects, <S6c. 



The remainder, and by far the greater part of the work, is 

 devoted to a brief description of the various fruits, with out- 



