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DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS, TO WIT t 



BE it remembered, That on the third day of January, A. D. 1822, and 

 in the forty-sixth year of the Independence of the United States of Ame- 

 rica, Joseph W. Ingraham, of the said district, has deposited in this office the 

 title of a book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the words 

 following, to wit : 



u The American Orchardist ; or a practical treatise on the culture and 

 management of apple and other fruit trees, with observations on the diseases 

 to which they are liable, and their remedies. To which is added the most 

 approved method of manufacturing and preserving cider. Compiled from 

 the latest and most approved authorities, and adapted to the use of Ameri- 

 can farmers. By James Thacher, M. D. Fellow of the American Aca- 

 demy of Arts and Sciences, and of the Massachusetts Medical Society, &c. 

 c. l Nature in her teaching, speaks in very intelligible language, and that 

 language is conveyed by experience and observation.' " 



In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States, entitled, 

 u An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of Maps, 

 Charts, and Books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during 

 the times therein mentioned ;" and also to an act, entitled " An act sup- 

 plementary to an act, entitled, An act for the encouragement of learn- 

 ing, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the authors 

 and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned ; and 

 extending the benefits thereof to the arts of Designing, Engraving, and 

 Etching, Historical, and other Prints." 



JNO. W. DAVIS, 

 Clerk of the District of Massachusetts, 



