IV ' ' 'I ' r ,l /' < r ,< PREFACE. 



greater part, and latterly the whole, of the 

 labour of conducting the Work has fallen, to 

 suspend it for the present, with the Third 

 Volume, and the 152d Plate; with the inten- 

 tion, however, of resuming it whenever circum- 

 stances shall justify his doing so. In the 

 meanwhile he feels that he should ill dis- 

 charge the duty he owes to those friends of 

 Horticulture, who have supported the under- 

 taking, if he did not endeavour to render it, 

 in its present state, as useful as the nature 

 of it will admit ; an object which he is led 

 to believe cannot be more effectually accom- 

 plished than by introducing lists of such 

 Fruit - trees as can best be recommended in 

 planting a select Garden. In preparing 

 them, a few notes, as to the period of ma- 

 turity of the varieties, and other useful points, 

 have been added, with references to the Plates 

 where they are figured in this Work : the 

 latter are indicated by the figures. 



The difficulty of determining which to 

 plant of the many Fruit-trees contained in 

 every Nurseryman's Catalogue, and which to 

 reject, is notoriously so great, and is so gene- 

 rally felt, as to render it perfectly unnecessary 

 to dwell upon this point ; or if it were not, 

 it would become obvious from an inspection 

 of the Catalogue of Fruits published by the 



