RECOMMENDATION, 



THE gentlemen who sign the following Recommendation are 

 officers of the Massachusetts Agricultural Society, although they 

 do not subscribe as such ; but cheerfully consent, as individuals, 

 to honour the publication with the following testimony of their 

 approbation. 



BOSTON, SEPTEMBER 10, 1821. 



WE have perused, at the request of Dr. Thacher, his Trea- 

 tise on the Culture of Fruit Trees, and the Art of Making Ci- 

 der; 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 hesitation in saying, 

 that it appears to us an excellent cumpeudium of all that has 

 been written on the subject comprising, within a moderate 

 compass, the result of the observations of the experienced cul- 

 tivators of Europe, and of this country with many original sug- 

 gestions 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 orig- 

 inal sources, from which, with great labour, and, as we believe, 

 good judgment, this compilation has been formed. 



[Names of the gentlemen who, as individuals, sig-n the above 

 recommeedation ; with the addition of their titles, as copied from 

 the Massachusetts Agricultural Journal.] 



AARON DEXTER, M. D. President. 



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



THOMAS L. WINTHROP, Esq. 2d Vice-P resident. 



JOHN PRINCE, Esq. Treasurer. 



JOHN LOWELL, Esq. Corresponding Secretary. 



Hon. RICHARD SULLIVAN, Recording Secretary. 



Hon. PETER C. BROOKS, 



Hon. JOHN WELLES, 



Hon. JOSIAH QUINCY, i T 



S. G. PERKINS, Esq. 



GORHAM PARSONS, Esq. 



E. HERSEY DERBY, Esq. 



