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SELECT LIST prepared for this work, by SAMUEL WALKER, 



President of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, at 



in accordance with his own experience, and in the order Oj 



their value, all things considered. 



Apples Rhode Island Greening, .Gravenstein, Baldwin, 

 Early Harvest, Minister, Danver's Sweet, Bough, Roxbury 

 Russet, Dyer, White Seeknofurther, Summer Rose, Porter, 

 Hubbardston Nonesuch, Fameuse, Summer Pearmain, Fall 

 Harvey, Red Astrachan, Fall Pippin, River, William's Fa- 

 vorite 20. 



Pears Vicar of Winkfield, (for its size, productiveness, 

 ong continuance, and many uses,) Bartlett, Beurre d'Arem- 

 berg, Seckel, Fondante d'Automne, Urbaniste, Bloodgood, 

 Louise Bonne of Jersey on quince, Winter Nelis, Dear- 

 born's Seedling, Flemish Beauty, Glout Morceau, Madeleine, 

 Beurre Bosc, Beurre Diel on quince, Rostiezer, Heaihcote 

 Passe Colmar, Andrews, Golden Bilboa, Tyson, Dix 22. 



Cherries Black Tartarian, Black Eagle, Downer's Red, 

 jMayduke, Bigarreau, Knight's Early Black 6. 



Peaches Grosse Mignonne, George IV., Oldmixon Free, 

 Cooledge's Favorite, Crawford's Late, Late Red Rare- 

 ripe 6. 



Plums Green Gage, Jefferson, Purple Gage, Columbia, 

 Washington, Imperial Gage 6. 



Apricots Moorpark, Breda, Royal. 



Nectarines Elruge, Hunt's Tawny, New White, Early 

 Newington, Early Violet, Roman 6. 



Native Grapes Isabella, Catawba. 



LIST furnished by R. MANNING, Pomological Garden,* &z- 

 lem, Mass. 



Three best pears, early, middle, and late Bartlett, Para- 

 dise d'Automne, Winter Nelis. 



Three best summer pears Bloodgood, Rostiezer, Dear- 

 born's Seedling. 



Three test autumn Bartlett, Paradise d'Automne, Urba- 

 niste. 



Three best winter Winter Nelis, Beurre d'Aremberg, 

 Easter Beurre. 



* Where nearly one thousand sorts are in bearing. T. Rivers, in England, has 

 selected out of nearly one thousand, only four for market, viz., Bartlett, Bevrr* 

 d'Amalis, Capiaumont, and Louise Bonne of Jersey. The second and third, how- 

 ever, prove no better than second quality, in thi country. 



