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growing fruits for the same purposes, speak 

 in terms of praise and condemnation of the 

 same varieties of fruits. We have even known 

 an intelligent orchardist to cut his scions from 

 the same limb that another of equal intelli- 

 gence, had sawed off as unworthy of cultiva- 

 tion. These remarks apply with more or less 

 force to our fruits and fruit trees generally. 



Something, nevertheless, may be done, and, 

 so far as it in us lies, we shall endeavor hon- 

 estly and faithfully to do this something, to 

 the best of our humble ability. 



It is important to say that many fine fruits 

 are purposely left out of all our Descriptive 

 Lists. Of some of these the reputation has 

 not been sufficiently established ; others have 

 not proved uniformly productive and hardy ; 

 others have been too variable in their quality ; 

 and of others the omission has been justified 

 by other seemingly sufficient causes. 



It will be obvious to whoever reflects upon 

 the matter, that such small lists as we have 

 chosen to confine ourselves to, are not easily 

 compiled. One man's family consumption, 

 nearness to a good market, taste, fancy or pe- 

 culiar whim, may be such that he will prefer 

 to cultivate almost exclusively-r-say of ap- 

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