HOOPER'S 



W^ESTERlSr FRUIT BOOK, 



The following opinions are from gentlemen well known 

 as eminent Horticulturists, who examined the work in 

 manuscript : 



Spring Garden, Cincinnati, 



November 12th, 1856. ■ 

 E. J, Hooper, Esq., 



3Iy Dear Sir — T have given your manuscript Catalogue of 

 Fruits a hasty examination, and regret that my time decs not admit of a 

 more deliberate and critical one. The arrangement is admirable, and 

 can not fail to be immensely valuable to cultivators, as well as to those 

 Trho are making selections of Fruit Trees for planting. The great confu- 

 sion which exists in the nomenclature is exceedingly embarrassing. 

 This your arrangement removes, and makes the subject easily under- 

 stood. Your descriptions, though brief, are pointed, and really all that 

 is needed, to guide the uninformed in making judicious selections. The 

 number of varieties that have been brought to notice within the last few 

 years, is so great, and the want of time to test them in our soil and cli- 

 mate so short, that such a work as yours will require great care and 

 labor ; and even then will of necessity require several editions, correc- 

 tions^ and additions, to approach anything like perfection. 



With my best wishes for your success in the noble undertaking, I 

 remain, very respectfully, yours, 



A. H. ERNST. 



