10 INTRODUCTORY REMARKS. 



of plum, four of apple, and several of the later 

 yarieties of cherry, making nearly twenty in all ; 

 besides an early peach just beginning to ripen. 

 Most of these were good, and some of them delicious. 



Intelligent persons are often greatly surprised at 

 such facts, which are but a specimen of what a 

 succession may afford for several months together. 

 In our latitude, the supply begins with the first 

 days of summfer; the earliest Strawberries and 

 Cherries ripen nearly together ; they are followed 

 for several weeks by other varieties, and by Rasp- 

 berries ; the earlier Apricots and Pears become ripe 

 from one to two weeks before our wheat harvest ; 

 Apples and Plums only a few days later ; and 

 soon after, from the latter part of summer to mid- 

 autumn and later, a host of the richest varieties of 

 Apples, Pears, Peaches and Nectarines, Plums and 

 Grapes, keep up a continued succession, to be fol- 

 lowed, in their turn, by the more durable winter 

 fruits. Pears and Grapes may be kept till spring, 

 and some of the best keeping Apples the whole 

 year through. Who that already has a bearing 

 orchard of all these, would forego the luxuries they 

 yield, for ten times the labor and expense they 

 have cost ? 



It is not surprising that such fine fruits should 

 be neglected, when in fact most of them are un- 

 known to the mass of well informed persons. An 

 intelligent acquaintance remarked that he did not 



