898 Fruits and Fruit Trees of America. 



have served as a guide to future writers, and to greatly lessen 

 the task of identifying fruits, and detecting their synonyms. 



The work now before us, is the result of the author's ex- 

 perience, aided by several amateurs and cultivators in various 

 parts of the country. A great portion of the fruits are de- 

 scribed from specimens produced in his own nursery, while 

 others have been supplied by friends. The descriptions and 

 engravings of some have been copied from foreign publica- 

 tions. 



The volume is modelled upon that most valuable treatise, 

 Lindley's Guide to the Garden and Orchard, and is, we be- 

 lieve, as good a form as can be adopted ; with an alphabet- 

 ical arrangement, and a general treatise preceding each kind 

 of fruit, a reference can be readily made ; this, with the al- 

 phabetical index of both the names and synonyms of every 

 variety, the latter in Italic type, affords every facility for find- 

 ing any fruit. An appendix contains the author's views at 

 some length, on the '• duration of varieties," a subject full of 

 interest to all cultivators ; and one which no doubt will at- 

 tract the attention of all cultivators. The volume is dedi- 

 cated to the President of the Mass. Horticultural Society. 



Chapters one to eight, are devoted to the general subject of 

 fruits and fruit trees ; viz. : I. The production of new 

 varieties of fruit : 11. Propagation of varieties — graftmg 

 — budding — cuttings — layers and suckers: III. Pruning: 

 IV. Training : V. Transplanting : VI. Position of fruit 

 trees — soil and aspect: Vil. General Remarks on Insects. 

 Chapter VIII. commences with the apple, and each succeeding 

 one with the almond, berberry, cherry, (fcc, in alphabetical 

 order. 



The chapter on the propagation of new varieties contains 

 many useful hints, and the author speaks thus truly in re- 

 gard to the growth and production of new seedlings : — 



"Tn the whole range of cares and pleasures belonging to the garden, 

 there is nothing more truly interesting than the production of new varieties 

 of fruit. It is not, indeed, by sowing the seeds that tlie lover of fine fruit 

 usually undertakes to stock his garden and orchard with fine fruit trees. 

 Raising new varieties is always a slow, and, as generally understood, a 

 most uncertain mode of bringing about this result. The novice, plants and 

 carefully watches his hundred seedling pippins, to find at last, perhaps, 



