POMOLOGICAL MANUAL; 



OR, 



A TREATISE ON FRUITS : 



CONTAINING 



DESCRIPTIONS OF A GREAT NUMBER 



OF THE MOST VALUABLE VARIETIES 



FOR THE ORCHARD AND GARDEN. 



"When Autumn basks, with fruit empurpled deep, 

 My pleasing theme continual prompts my tliought; 

 Presents the downy peach ; the shining plum ; 

 The ruddy, fragrant nectarine ; and dark, 

 Beneath his ample leaf, the luscious fig." 



BY WILLIAM ROBERT PRINCE, 



Author of a Treatise on the Vine, t^c. 



AIDED BY 



WILLIAM PRINCE, 



Proprietor of the Linna>an Botanic Garden and Nurseries ; Vice-President of the New- York 



Horticultural Society ; Member of the Linnnean Pociety of Paris ; of the Horticultural Societies 



of London and Paris; of the Imperial Society of the Georgolili at Florence ; Honorary Member 



of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, etc. etc. 



PART I. 



NE W.YORK: 



PUBLISHED BY T. & J. SWORDS, G. & C. & H. CARVILL, E. BLISS, COLLINS & CO. 



G. THORBURN & SONS, NEW- YORK; JIIDAH DOBSON, PHILADELPHL\ : 



I. B. RUSSELL, BOSTON; GIDEON B, SMITH, BALTIMORE; 



JAMES WINSTON, RICHMOND; AND .lOSEPH 



SIMMONS, CHARLESTON, S. C. 



1831. 



