THE 



AMERICAN 



FRUIT CULTURIST, 



CONTAINING PRACTICAL DIRECTIONS FOR THE PROPAGATION 



AND CULTURE OF ALL FRUITS ADAPTED TO 



THE UNITED STATES. 



BY 



JOHN J. THOMAS, 



First President of the Fruit Growers' Society of Western Ne^^ York; Honorary 



Member of Massachusetts Horticultural Society ; of Pennsylvania Fruit 



drawers' Society ; Worcester Horticultural Society, &*c., and 



for Thirty Years a Practical Nurseryman. 



A THOROUGHLY REVISED EDITION^ ^I-LL;S CRATED WtTl^i^IVE HUNDRED 

 AND NINETEEN, AOCdRATIi FIGURES'. 



NEW YORK: 

 AVILLIAM WOOD & COMPANY, 



56 & 58 LAFAYETTE PLACE. 



1385 



