16G List of Apples found to succeed 



experience has proved that every variety of fruit has a j)e- 

 ciiliar locality of soil and climate, in which it arrives at its 

 hiLjliost perfection, and that if removed to another (even 

 tlioiiirh siijK'rior in fertility, if it be less suitable) it often de- 

 generates and becomes worthless, and its former high charac- 

 ter proves but a source of disappointment. This 1 have found 

 to be the case in numerous instances of fruits which were in 

 the highest repute in France and England, and I have 

 spared neither trouble nor expense to procme such from every 

 quarter as might prove an accpiisition to this country. Dis- 

 appointments of this nature, such local returns as you require 

 would go far to remedy, if accompanied by accurate notices 

 of the circumstances under which the fruits are placed ; and 

 I here endeavour to redeem my pledije iriven to that effect, 

 by sendmg you a list of such sorts of apjiles as I have found 

 by experience to answer best in this neighbourhood, uniting 

 tlie essential requisites of good (lualily and abundant pro- 

 duce, and purpose a continuation of the other kinds of fruit, 

 until the series shall be complete. 



As a dry enumeration of name"?, in the present confused 

 state of fruit nomenclature, would be of little avail, I shall 

 add to them such descriptions as may serve to identify the 

 variety, by selecting its most striking characters ; and, to avoid 

 occuj)ying your space uimecessarily, shall omit such others 

 as are of minor importance. In order to facilitate that object, 

 I have also divided these apples under three distinct heads; 

 and each variety will follow in succession, according to its 

 order of ripening, so as to form an assortment of the choicest 

 kinds for each season, suflicient for every useful purpose * ; 

 but as a greater number may be desirable, I have added a 

 sup{)lementary list of such as 1 conceive next in (juality ; and 

 shoidd far! her exj)erience enable me to enlarge it to advan- 

 tage, I shall be anxious to counnunicate the result. 



It would be liighly desirable that an effort should be made 

 to renovate the very useful dwarf stock called the Dutch Para- 

 dise, or wliat the French call the Douciii, as it appears to be 

 fast degenerating to old age and canker. This individual variety 

 existed before Miller; it niay be renewed from seed, and, 1 

 am persuailed, with all its former, and perhaps with new, good 

 (jualities. A|)ple trees raised from the seetl often |)resent a 

 striking resemblance to the parent stock, both in their habits 

 of growth and in their fruit. 



cliiDiitL', towards that of" acitlity or insipidity ; and, vice versa, when re- 

 moved to such as arc more fittini;, they improve. 



* Should a .still narrower selettiou of the l)est hearing apples be required 

 for a very suiall garden, tlit-y arc marked with a star. 



