166 List of Apples found to succeed 



experience has proved that every variety of fruit has a pe- 

 culiar locality of soil and climate, in which it arrives at its 

 highest perfection, and that if removed to another (even 

 though superior in fertility, if it be less suitable) it often de- 

 generates and becomes worthless, and its former high charac- 

 ter proves but a source of disappointment. This I have found 

 to be the case in numerous instances of fruits which were in 

 the highest repute in France and England, and I have 

 spared neither trouble, nor expense to procure such from every 

 quarter as might prove an acquisition to this country. Dis- 

 appointments of this nature, such local returns as you require 

 would go far to remedy, if accompanied by accurate notices 

 of the circumstances under which the fruits are placed ; and 

 I here endeavour to redeem my pledge given to that effect, 

 by sending you a list of such sorts of apples as I have found 

 by experience to answer best in this neighbourhood, uniting 

 the essential requisites of good quality and abundant pro- 

 duce, and purpose a continuation of the other kinds of fruit, 

 until the series shall be complete. 



As a dry enumeration of names, in the present confused 

 state of fruit nomenclature, would be of little avail, I shall 

 add to them such descriptions as may serve to identify the 

 variety, by selecting its most striking characters; and, to avoid 

 occupying your space unnecessarily, shall omit such others 

 as are of minor importance. In order to facilitate that object, 

 I have also divided these apples under three distinct heads ; 

 and each variety will follow in succession, according to its 

 order of ripening, so as to form an assortment of the choicest 

 kinds for each season, sufficient for every useful purpose * ; 

 but as a greater number may be desirable, I have added a 

 supplementary list of such as I conceive next in quality ; and 

 should farther experience enable me to enlarge it to advan- 

 tage, I shall be anxious to communicate the result. 



It would be highly desirable that an effort should be made 

 to renovate the very useful dwarf stock called the Dutch Para- 

 dise, or what the French call the Doucin, as it appears to be 

 fast degenerating to old age and canker. This individual variety 

 existed before Miller ; it may be renewed from seed, and, I 

 am persuaded, with all its former, and perhaps with new, good 

 qualities. Apple trees raised from the seed often present a 

 striking resemblance to the parent stock, both in their habits 

 of growth and in their fruit. 



climate, towards that of acidity or insipidity; and, vice versa, when re- 

 moved to such as are more fitting, they improve. 



* Should a still narrower selection of the best bearing apples be required 

 for a very small garden, they are marked with a star. 



