14: A COMPLETE LIST OF KINDS. 



To remedy the injurious effects and prevent a 

 continuance of this needless expense to the planter, 

 should be sufficient inducements for establishing hor- 

 ticultural societies in every town ; these societies to co- 

 operate with each other through the medium of Coun- 

 ty, State and National Pomological Societies. In this 

 way more useful and definite information would soon 

 be obtained. The town societies should discuss free- 

 ly at their meetings the merits and demerits of the 

 different varieties, and their adaptability to certain 

 localities. A very complete list of kinds suited to 

 particular localities and climates, could soon be ar- 

 rived at. This would, in the course of a few years, 

 enable parties to make a better selection of fruit, 

 and much uncertainty that now exists would be 

 avoided. There has been much accomplished by a 

 few energetic societies, but there is still a wide field 

 for improvement. I am constantly asked : " What 

 kinds shall I plant for table use, and what kinds for 

 market ? " These are difficult questions to answer, 

 when it is well known that we have only a few 

 varieties that succeed well in all localities. The 

 Bartlett, Duchesse d'Angouleme, Seckel and Yicar 

 of Winkfield, with a few others, are favorably known 

 in nearly every locality, and do well in most situa- 

 tions; but people want a more extended list of 

 varieties, and in many cases they have repented of 



