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Nomenclature of Fruits. 



During a number of years, the author has been engaged in 

 a most extensive and general investigation of all the fruits 

 that have been introduced to this country from abroad, in or- 

 der to test tlieir accuracy, and the correctness of their names. 

 Tins critical inquiry has convinced him, that not less than 

 100 varieties ot the different fruits at present extensively 

 cultivated in this country are incorrect, as to the identity 

 of their names, and consequently quite different from those 

 they are intended to represent. This has arisen either from 

 errors being made when they were sent from Europe, or by 

 established names being adopted here for doubtful fruits. 

 The author himself has, in common with others, been grossly 

 deceived in the varieties of fruits from Europe, even when 

 received from the best nurseries of England and France. 

 This has long since led him to scrutinize every variety he 

 receives, and the original tree is invariably planted out for 

 bearing, that its accuracy may be tested. The author has 

 gone into these remarks, to account for any present differ- 

 ences which exist between fruits from his Pjtablishment, and 

 those from others bearing similar names, as above 100 kinds 

 will be found to essentially differ both in appearance and 

 quality. Those persons who are conversant with Duham- 

 mel, the Luxembourg Catalogue formed under the auspices 

 of the French Government, the Bon Jardinier, and other 

 French publications; or with Miller, Forsyth, Speechley, 

 and the publications of the London Horticultural Society, 

 can have the identical fruits sent them that are described in 

 those works, and in every case the identity is guaranteed* 



Synonyms in Fruits. 



The author is taking extreme pains to regulate these pro- 

 perly and conclusively, as so much of the success of horti- 

 culture depends on critical accuracy. The Catalogues of 

 his establishment bear witness to his anxiety, that the same 

 fruit should never be disseminated under a plurality of 

 names, and it contains more synonyms attached to the re- 

 spective fruits than any other publication existing ; but the 

 author intends, in his " American Horticulture," to extend 

 this necessary part of horticultural information, so as to se$ 



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