ADVERTISEMENT. 



The object of this Work is, firstly, to 

 make the Public accurately acquainted with 

 those varieties of Fruit which are of suffi- 

 cient importance to deserve cultivation in 

 Great Britain ; and secondly, to reconcile the 

 discordant nomenclature of nurserymen and 

 other cultivators. Both these points are, it 

 is presumed, of great interest to those who 

 possess gardens ; the former in guiding pur- 

 chasers in the selection of varieties for culti- 

 vation, and the latter in enabling them to 

 avoid filling their collections with the same 

 kind under different names. In the execution 

 of the Plates and the Letter-press, nothing 

 has been, it is hoped, omitted which could 

 conduce either to the utility or the beauty 

 of the Work ; and it may be added, that the 

 endeavours which have hitherto been made to 



