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pies the summer or early autumn varieties. 

 Another man differently situated, cultivating 

 for dissimilar purposes, and aiming to gratify 

 entirely different taste, fancy or whims, may 

 desire to cultivate none but winter fruits. 

 Still a third class of men may desire altogeth- 

 er other fruits, and so forth. 



Occupants of city-gardens, having only two 

 or three trees, would probably wish to cul- 

 tivate such fruits as can be enjoyed in perfec- 

 tion, only when eaten directly from the tree. 



Those possessing but a single tree would 

 be able to attain this object, by having two or 

 three such early varieties worked upon it to- 

 gether, trusting to the market for a supply of 

 those fruits which have better keeping prop- 

 erties. 



It would be desirable to extend these gene- 

 ral remarks ; but ours is a little book, and we 

 must hasten along to other subjects. 



In preparing our Lists, we have followed 

 the Catalogue of the London Horticultural 

 Society, as giving a greater amount of in- 

 formation, in a small space, than any other 

 plan with which we are acquainted. In our 

 particular descriptions of the quality of fruits, 

 we have followed the mode adopted by the 



