30 Review of the J^ew American Orchardist. 



" 6th. Those plants that derive their principal support from the soil 

 should not be sown, excepting when the soil is sufficiently provided with 

 manure. 



" 7th. When the soil exhibits symptoms of exhaustion from successive 

 harvest, the cultivation of those plants that restore most to the soil, must 

 be resorted to." 



Enoufich has been quoted to show the spirit and character 

 of the book before us. We will only add, for the gratifica- 

 tion of our floral and horticultural friends, that a very inter- 

 esting North American plant bears the name of the author ; 

 we mean " Chaptdlia tomenlosa^^ (Fenteiiat). — R. 



Art. II. The JVew American Orchardist, or an Account of the 

 most valuable Varieties of Fruit of all Climates, adapted to Cul- 

 tivation in the United States, ^c; and the Culture of Silk. 

 With an Appendix on Vegetables, Ornamental Trees, Shrubs 

 and Flowers. By William Kenrick. Second edition, en- 

 larged and improved. Boston. Russell, Odiorne & Met- 

 caff, and Hovey & Co. 1835. 1 vol. 8vo. pp. 418. 



We congratulate all pomologists and lovers of good fruit 

 in the United States upon the appearance of a second edi- 

 tion of this valuable work. In those sections of the Union, 

 especially where the same enclosure often produces, with 

 but trifling care, so many of the most delicious fruits of tem- 

 perate climes ; where the use of walls for the ripening of 

 fruits is scarcely at all necessary, and is comparatively un- 

 known ; where the peach, the apricot, the cherry, the pear, 

 the plum and the apple, acquire their luscious flavor in full 

 perfection during the long, dry, sunny days of our warm sum- 

 mers — a work like the present must be peculiarly valuable. 

 So congenial is our situation to most of the fruits of temper- 

 ate latitudes, that excellent varieties of apples and peaches 

 have sprung up in our orchards almost, as it were, sponta- 

 neously, yielding annually thousands of bushels of superior 

 fruit ; but the unwearied and indefatigable exertions of the 

 scientific cultivators of Europe have produced, within the 

 last five years, an immense number of new varieties of the 

 best fruits which, for excellence of flavor, duration and beau- 

 ty of appearance, have excited the astonishment of all per- 

 sons. This is more particularly the case with regard to the 



