224 A Practical Treatise, ^'c. 



line engravings of many of the more important and valuable 

 kinds. The volume comprises two hundred and eighty-eight 

 pages of small type — handsomely printed, and forming a neat 

 addition to every farmer's library. 



Art. II. A Practical Treatise on the Management of Fruit 



Trees ; loitli Descriptive Lists of the Most Valuable Pruits 



for General Cultivation, adapted to the Interior of New 



England. By George Jacques. 1 vol. 12mo. pp. 256. 



Worcester. 1849. 



Here we have a treatise purely local, being adapted to the 

 interior of New England. " Having waited" says Mr. Jacques, 

 "a long while, in the hope that some one, better qualified for 

 the work, might be induced to furnish the fruit cultivators of 

 interior New England with a treatise such as their /oca/ wants 

 demand, I have at length ventured upon the undertaking 

 myself. * * * * 



** Tf there are pears which ripen freely at Salem, but will not succeed 

 at Boston; if the climate of western New York, and the shores of the Hud- 

 son differ so widely, as to affect the quality of several varieties of different 

 species of fruits, one might infer — what it has cost the writer something to 

 learn — that whoever would succeed with fruit trees, in the hill coun- 

 try of the Eastern States, may rely with tolerable safety upon the uncer- 

 tain testimony of his own neighborhood, while the profoundest wisdom 

 that has ever recorded the experience of other countries would only mis- 

 lead and bewilder." 



This is all very true, and Mr. Jacques has succeeded well 

 in his undertaking, and proved himself well qualified for the 

 task. The cultivators of New England will be especially in- 

 debted to him, and we have no doubt his work will be the 

 means of enabling the possessors of the hilly and colder sec- 

 tions of our own New England to select such varieties as 

 will give them an abundance of the choicest fruits. 



We have always contended that it was utterly useless to 

 allow ourselves to be guided by the opinions of cultivators 

 in the warmer portions of New York and the Middle States— 



