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Crawform. August. 



Magdalom. July. 



Ambrine. August. 



Zaire. August. 



This being the case, it appears to us that the best mode of conveying a useful 



knowledge of the different varieties of fruits, 



or of florist's flowers, would be to give repre- 

 sentations of the fruits or flowers in groups of 



such as bear the greatest resemblance to one 



another; and, if the different varieties were 



also distinguishable by the blossoms, leaves, 



buds, and wood, to give separate and corre- 

 sponding representations of these. For this 



purpose a work in folio, or in a tabular form, 



would be better adapted than any other, 



as the greater the number that were brought 



together in one table or group, the more easy 



would be the comparison. To show how 



this might be done in the case of pears, for 



example, we may suppose the first table to 



consist of a sheet of paper 2 ft. square, and 



to be divided into squares of 2 in. each. 



{fig. 116.) The number of squares on a table 



of that size will be one hundred and forty-four, and in these squares may 



be delineated the fruits, with their stalks, of one hundred and forty-four 

 different sorts, the name being written above 

 each, with the times of ripening and keeping. 

 A second table, of the same number of 

 squares, may contain sections of the fruits, 

 and specimens of the seeds {fig. 117.), with the 

 names, &c, as before. 



A third table, composed of the same num- 

 ber of squares, may contain the blossoms, and 

 state of the wood and leaf buds at blossoming 

 time, of these 

 one hundred 

 and forty-four 

 sorts, with 

 their names 

 in the same 

 order, and in 



similar squares, (fig. 118.) 



A fourth table, of the same size, may 



consist of a similar number of squares, with 



117 



Crawform. Aug,, 



Magdalom. July. 

 August, 



Zaire. August. 



118 



119 



Crawform. April. 



Magdalom. April. 



Ambrine. April. 



Zaire. April. 



Crawform. April. 



Magdalom. April. 



Ambrine. April. 



Zaire. April. 



the front, 

 back, and 

 side views 

 of a leaf 

 or tuft of 

 leaves in 

 each square. 



ifig- 11 9-) 



A fifth table, of the same size, may consist 

 of one hundred and forty-four parallelo- 

 grams, each 4 in. by 1 in., and each contain- 

 ing a specimen of the summer wood and 

 leaves, (fig. 120.) 



A sixth table may contain similar paral- 

 lelograms for the winter wood, taken at 

 Christmas, and the blossom buds, taken on 

 the 1st of March, when the blossom buds are considerably swelled, (fig. 121.) 



