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Court of "VVick 

 Fearn's Pippin 

 Hanwell's Souring 

 Margil 



Norfolk Beaufin 

 Old Nonpareil 

 Royal Pearmain 

 *Ne\vto\vn Pippin 

 *Rhode-Island Green- 

 ing 

 *Vandevere 



The variety of apples cultivated in this country is by far _ 

 too numerous to attempt any thing like a complete descrip- 

 tion : even to enumerate them would be a most difficult 

 task, owing to the great uncertainty of their names among 

 nurserymen, gardeners, and orchardists, and the multiplicity 

 of names under which they are known in different places. 



In apples, a greater confusion exists in this respect than 

 in any other description of fruit. This arises not so much 

 from the great number of varieties which are grown, as from 

 the number of growers, some of whom seek to profit by their 

 crops alone, regarding but little their nomenclature. Nur- 

 serymen, who are more anxious to grow a large stock for 

 sale than to be careful as to its character, are led into error 

 by taking it for granted that the name of a fruit they propa- 

 gate is its correct name, and no other : hence arises the fre- 

 quency of so many of our fruits being sold under ^vrong 

 names. Gardeners, who purchase trees, become deceived 

 by this procedure, £fnd do not discover the error, unless they 

 have been imposed upon by the substitution of something 

 worthless, wholly and obviously at variance with the charac- 

 ter of the fruit that was sold them. This is a serious evil, 

 to say nothing of the disappointment of the purchaser; for, 

 unless the mistake be detected at first, the longer the tree 

 grows before it is discovered, the more time \vill have been 

 lost in its cultivation ; and, be it remembered, this time is 

 irrecoverable. 



The foregoing descriptions of many of our most popular 

 apples, it is presumed, will be found sufficiently clear to en- 

 able the pomologist to detect these egregious and every-day 

 blunders, and to ascertain whether he cultivates those fruits 

 that have been sold him, or whether he has had others sub- 

 stituted for them. 



