JL HE following valuable remarks by two of the gentlemen whose 

 names are subjoined to the preceding recommendation, were not received 

 till after the printing of the volume was completed. 



41 1 REGRET that ( had not seen the MS. as I should have taken the 

 liberty of recommending to the notice of Dr. Thacher, the best of all the 

 cherries the Black Tartarian, introduced by Prince Potemkin, from Pon- 

 tus to St. Petersburgh, soon after the conquest of the Crimea, and brought 

 to London by a British botanist, in 1796 ; from whence my friend, the 

 late Eben. Preble, Esq. imported a tree some years after, at five times 

 the price of common sorts, which he planted in his garden in Boston, 

 but removing it the second year, to make room for a building, check- 

 ed the bearing, and I was enabled by a cutting he had previously given 

 me to produce the first dessert of this noble fruit, in the United States. 

 It is a constant, full bearer ; succeeds better by grafting than any other 

 sorts^; is of larger size than any; and may be said to be in eating from 

 the time it is two thirds grown, till some time after fully ripe ; and as 

 evidence of superiour excellence, has generally brought double the price 

 of the best black hearts in the Boston market." S. W. POMEROY. 



u PERMIT me to suggest that so far as my experience goes, I have 

 found the first week of feeptember the best time for budding young peach 

 stocks. The bud is not so subject to gum at this as an earlier season. 

 [See page 40.] 



" While upon the subject of decortication of apple trees, [See page 80,] 

 you might, I think, add, that the operation may be performed with equal 

 success on old pear trees. Dr. Holyoke, of Salem, informed me a few 

 years since, that he had made the experiment on an old pear tree in his 

 yard that had ceased bearing, and restored to it its wonted fecundity. 



44 1 have noted your observations on grafting pears on quince stocks, 

 [pages 33 and 180.] I have a number of trees of this description, arid 

 some of them quite large and extremely vigorous and healthy. They 

 produce annually in great abundance, and some of the largest and finest 

 pears of their kind which I have ever seen are produced on those trees. 

 But the stock should be from what is called the Portugal quince, which 

 grows as fast as the natural or free stock ; and the pears put on them 

 should always be of the soft flesh, or buttery kind; the breaking pears 

 do not answer' so well on this, as on the free stock. In France all their 

 finest pears, of the buttery kind, are raised on the Portugal quince 

 stocks." S. G. PERKIAS. 



ERRATA. 



Page 60, line 3 and 4, for John Wells, esquire, of Dorchester, read ho- 

 nourable John Welles, of Dorchester, one of the trustees of the Massa- 

 chusetts Agricultural Society. 



Page 129, line 15, for Pomone d'Apis, read Pomme d'Apis. 



