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TO THE SEVENTH EDITION. 



THE present edition of this work has been revised 

 with very particular attention and care ; all the latest 

 and most eminent writers of Europe, which have come 

 to hand, having been diligently consulted, and the 

 experience of the most intelligent of our own country. 

 In this edition, many important improvements will be 

 found, and many additions, particularly in regard to 

 fruits. The list of these, although so complete in the 

 former editions, is yet, in this, greatly improved ; and 

 especially in those fine new kinds which have been 

 so lately proved by Mr. Thompson and others, at 

 the Garden of the London Horticultural Society at 

 Chiswick, and elsewhere in England, and in France ; 

 or more latterly approved with us. During visits of 

 the author to those countries in the autumn of 1840, 

 and years 1841-2, much information was collected by 

 him from first-rate sources, from oral and other com- 

 munications, which will be found in the following 

 pages. In this, the seventh edition, other information, 

 equally new, and not less important, will be found, to 

 the period of this still later date. 



NONANTUM HILL, January, 1844. 



N. B. Throughout this work, a star is prefixed to 

 those fruits only of whose excellence we are fully 

 satisfied, either by proof, or by the most ample and 

 satisfactory testimony. 



