THI: 



POMOLOGICAL MANUAL; 



OR, 



A TREATISE ON FRUITS : 



CONTAINING 



DESCRIPTIONS OF A GREAT NUMBER 



OK THE MOST VALUABLE VARIETIES 



FOR THE ORCHARD AND GARDEN. 



" When Autumn basks, with fruit empurpled deep, 

 My pleasing theme continual prompts my thought; 

 Presents the downy peach ; the shining plum ; 

 The ruddy, fragrant nectarine ; and dark, 

 Beneath his ample leaf, the luscious tig." 



BY WILLIAM ROBERT PRINCE, 



Author of a Treatise on the Vine, ffc. 



AIDED BY 



WILLIAM PRINCE, 



Proprietor of the Linnaean Botanic Garden and Nurseries ; Vice -President of tho New-York 



Horticultural Society; Member of the Linn&an Society of Paris ; of the Horticultural Societies 



of London and Paris; of the Imperial Society of the Georgofili at Florence; Honorary Member 



of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, etc. etc. 



PART I. 



SECOND EDITION. 



NE W-YORK: 



PUBLISHED BY T. t .1. SWORDS, G. & C & II. CARVILL. E BLISS, COI.UNS & CO. 



<; THnitliUUN & SONS, NEW- YORK; JUDAH DOBSON, I'HII.ADGJ.PIII \ , 



I. B. HHSSK1.L, (tosTON; GIDEON SMITH, BALTIMO11E ; 



JAMES WINSTON, KICIIMONU; AND JOSEPH 



SIMMONS, CHARLESTON, H. C. 



1882. 



