P R E F A C it 



THE object of this small publication is merely to give a 

 Few brief remarks as to the Culture of Fruit Trees, See. by 

 throwing together some of the leading rules, whose adoption 

 has proved most successful ; considering that it would be 

 satisfactory as an accompaniment to the Catalogues, and 

 might aid those who are ignorant on the subject but it is 

 not to be considered as addressed to the connoisseur oT 

 Fruits, to whom the most of its details must already be 

 familiar. 



It was not Intended to annex any descriptions of Fruits, 

 as the Author is now engaged in preparing a copious work 

 on that subject ; but, in the course of the arrangement, 

 descriptions have been added of many kinds which have re- 

 cently been brought into notice, and of a considerable number 

 of others, which, although long cultivated, are of acknow- 

 ledged celebrity. The numbers attached to the respective 

 Fruits refer to their enumeration in the last edition of the 

 Author's Catalogue* 



