90 APPLES. 



Court of Wick 79 Dutch Mignonne 82 



Fearn's Pippin 87 Golden Harvey 91 



HanwelPs Souring 139 Hubbard's Pearmain 142 



Margil 100 Martin Nonpareil 174 



Norfolk Beaufin 105 Northern Greening 149 



Old Nonpareil 175 Ribston Pippin 155 



Royal Pearmain 156 *Lady Apple 227 



*Newtown Pippin 103 *Ortley Apple 157 



* Rhode-Island Green- *Stroat Apple 225 



ing 221 *Swaar Apple 220 



*Vandevere 219 



The variety of apples cultivated in this country is by far 

 too numerous to attempt any thing like a complete descrip- 

 tion : even to enumerate them would be a most difficult 

 task, owing to the great uncertainty of their names among 

 nurserymen, gardeners, and orchardists, and the multiplicity 

 of names under which they are known in different places. 



In apples, a greater confusion exists in this respect than 

 in any other de?cription of fruit. This arises not so much 

 from the great number of varieties which are grown, as from 

 the number of growers, some of whom seek to profit by their 

 crops alone, regarding but little their nomenclature. Nur- 

 serymen, who are more anxious to grow a large stock for 

 sale than to be careful as to its character, are led into error 

 by taking it for granted that the name of a fruit they propa- 

 gate is its correct name, and no other : hence arises the fre- 

 quency of so many of our fruits being sold under wrong 

 names. Gardeners, who purchase trees, become deceived 

 by this procedure, and do not discover the error, unless they 

 have been imposed upon by the substitution of something 

 worthless, wholly and obviously at variance with the charac- 

 ter of the fruit that was sold them. This is a serious evil, 

 to say nothing of the disappointment of the purchaser; for, 

 unless the mistake be detected at first, the longer the tree 

 grows before it is discovered, the more time will have been 

 lost in its cultivation ; and, be it remembered, this time is 

 irrecoverable. 



The foregoing descriptions of many of our most popular 

 apples, it is presumed, will be found sufficiently clear to en- 

 able the pomologist to detect these egregious and every-day 

 blunders, and to ascertain whether he cultivates those fruits 

 that have been sold him, or whether he has had others sub- 

 stituted for them. 



