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rally live long in the United States, especially wliere 

 the soil is dry, as the quince succeeds best in a moist 

 loamy soil, and pears grafted upon their stalks ^yould 

 dotfbtless also do far better on such soils than "VN^hen 

 placed in sandy, gravelly, or other dry situations. 



The Apple-tree [Pyrus Malm) is, under the name 

 of the Crab, known as a native of Britain. Most of the 

 cultivated sorts, however, are of foreign origin, and it 

 does not seem probable that. we possess at present any 

 good variety which is more than two hundred years old. 

 The finer high-flavored apples are prized for the 

 dessert; the juicy and poignant sorts are in request for 

 tarts and sauce ; while those of a more austere nature 

 are manufactured into cider. In the second edition of 

 the London Hort. Society's Catalogue, no fewer than 

 1400 varieties are enumerated; many of them doubtless 

 not well ascertained, but about 175 are pronounced to 

 be excellent sorts. With such a multitude before us, it 

 would b^ vain to attempt detailed descriptions ; we 

 shall therefore do little more than give a classified list 

 of those most worthy of attention, referring the reader 

 for further i-nformation to the Catalogue itself, to Mr. 

 Lindley's Guide to the Orchard and Kitchen Crarden^ 

 and to Mr. Rogers' Fj^uit Cultivator ^ and to the nume- 

 rous publications on fruit-trees that have issued from 

 the American press. 



Table Aiiples. 

 The earliest of these are the following : — The Juneat- 

 ing, or White Geniton, which, in the climate of Eng- 

 land, begins to ripen in the end of July, and being 

 sugary and slightly perfumed, forms a welcome addi- 



