THE MAGAZINE 



OF 



HORTICULTURE. 



FEBRUARY, 1841. 



ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 



Art. I. Pomological J^otices ; or J^oticcs respecting neic 

 and superior varieties of Fruits icorthy of general cultiva- 

 tion. JVotices of one hundred and seven varieties of Jlpples^ 

 which have produced fruit in the Pomological Garden^ dur- 

 ing the years IS39 and 1S40. By R. Manning, Esq., 

 Pomological Garden, Salem, Mass. 



It is with the greatest pleasure that we are now enabled to 

 lay before our readers the results of Mr. Manning's indefatiga- 

 ble labors, in identifying and proving more than one hundred 

 of the best varieties of that most valuable fruit, the apple. To 

 those who knovi^ how to rightly estimate the task wliich Mr. 

 Manning has performed, it is not too much to afiirm that he 

 has accomplished more than any other individual in this coun- 

 try, and, we may perhaps say, as much or more than any one, 

 even in England. The Horticultural Society of London, with 

 Mr. Thompson at the head of the fruit department, have been 

 many years collecting information upon fruits, and have attempt- 

 ed to reduce to some order the almost innumerable varieties 

 under cultivation: the labors of the Society, thus far, are well 

 known, and the benefits which they have conferred upon the 

 horticultural public have been appreciated by all cultivators of 

 fruits. They are still, with the aid of Mr. Thompson, assidu- 

 ously collecting all the knowledge which they can obtain in re- 

 lation to the subject. 



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