RECOMMENDATION. 



THE gentlemen who sign the following Recommendation are officers 

 of the Massachusetts Agricultural Society, although they do not sub- 

 scribe as such ; but cheerfully consent, as individuals, to honour the publica- 

 tion with the following testimony of their approbation. 



Boston, September 10, 1821. 



W E have perused, at the request of Dr. Thacher, his Treatise on the 

 Culture of Fruit Trees, and the Art of Making Cider ; and, although we 

 cannot hope that our opinions will have any great weight with the publick, 

 yet, as the author is desirous that we should express them, we have no hesi- 

 tation in saying, that it appears to us an excellent compendium of all that 

 has been written on the subject comprising, within a moderate compass, 

 the result of the observations of the experienced cultivators of Europe, and 

 of this country with many original suggestions of his own and we believe 

 that such a work will be of great value to those, who wish to obtain a 

 knowledge of this branch of agriculture, but who cannot have access to the 

 original sources, from which, with great labour, and, as we believe, good 

 judgment, this compilation has been formed. 



[Names of the gentlemen who, as individuals, sign the above recom- 

 mendation ; with the addition of their titles, as copied from the Massa- 

 chusetts Agricultural Journal.] 



AARON DEXTER, M. D., President. 



SAMUEL W. POMEROY, Esq., First Vice-President. 



THOMAS L. WINTHROP, Esq., Second Vice-President. 



JOHN PRINCE, Esq., Treasurer. 



JOHN LOWELL, Esq., Corresponding Secretary. 



Hon. RICHARD SULLIVAN, Recording Secretary. 



Hon. PETER C. BROOKS, ~] 



PIon.JOHN WELLES, 



Hon.JOSIAH QUINCY, 



S. G. PERKINS, Esq., 



GORHAM PARSONS, Esq., 



E. HERSEY DERBY, Esq., J 



