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fruit as it becomes ripe, to keep it clean from sand : but this precaution is 

 seldom necessary. The superfluous runners and dead leaves should be re- 

 moved in September. What are termed male or barren plants should al- 

 ways be grubbed up." 



The work is exceedingly well got up ; it is printed on good 

 paper, in a neat clear type, in double columns, and is embel- 

 lished with a great number of finely executed engravings. 

 We can recommend the work to the attention of all who are 

 interested in gardening or farming, and especially to those 

 who have not already a good library for reference. 



Art. III. The Fruit Culturist, adapted to the Climate of the 

 Northern States ; contairmig Directions for raising Young 

 Ti'ees in the Nursery, and for the Managetnetit of the Or- 

 chard and Fruit Garden. By John J. Thomas. Illustrated 

 with Engravings. I vol., 16mo. pp. 220. New York. 1846. 



This is the title of a little volume, recently issued from the 

 press, but which we have not found an opportunity to notice 

 before. The author, Mr. Thomas, is favorably known as a 

 writer in various agricultural papers, and more recently as an 

 associate editor of the Albany Cultivator. The work is only 

 intended, as the author states in the preface, ''to furnish use- 

 ful directions to those who may be little acquainted with the 

 management of fruit trees," and those who need more ex- 

 tended information are referred to Mr. Downing' s Fruits and 

 Fruit Trees of America. 



The volume will answer very well the purposes intended, 

 and the directions for raising young stocks, planting out, 

 grafting, budding, pruning, «fcc., are plain, practical, and use- 

 ful to new beginners. In a hasty perusal of the work, we 

 have been well pleased with it, and only regret that Mr. 

 Thomas should have detracted from its excellence by making 

 any statements upon subjects of which he had no experience. 

 It would have been better to have omitted altogether any re- 

 marks, unless they could have been made with correctness. 



We are led to these remarks upon reading the chapter on 



