180 Remarks on Rogers's " Fruit Cultivator.'" 



girth at 4 ft. from the ground. The second best in this vicinity- 

 grows in peat or bog earth 8 ft. to 10 ft. deep. They have ceased 

 from their labour, and are at rest, who planted them ; but we are 

 told that, before the trees were planted, large pits were dug and 

 filled with good loam, where the trees have come to a large size ; 

 and all of them that have been felled were quite sound, and of 

 good quality. 



Thainston^ near Kintore, Aberdeenshire, Nov. 1834. 



Art. VII. Rema7-hs on the " Fruit Cultivator" of Mr. Rogers. 



By T. G. 



Having been much pleased with this work, I beg leave to 

 send you a few remarks on it, which I am the more anxious to 

 do speedily, in order that I may not seem to be led by the 

 review which you will no doubt give of it in your pages. I 

 must premise by observing that I am not only not personally 

 acquainted with Mr. Rogers, but that I did not know, till I saw 

 his work advertised, that such a person existed. I give you, 

 for your private satisfaction, my name and address, though I do 

 not wish either to be known to the public. 



The author observes, in his preface, that a complete work on 

 the subject can never be compiled, unless every man of long 

 experience do for himself and the public what he (the author) 

 has endeavoured to perform. He proceeds to state that, during 

 a long life of varied and active employment, he has made and 

 kept notes of the results of his practice, which he now, in his 

 eighty-third year, is induced to offer to the»young gardener and 

 nurseryman, as a fund of information which he trusts will not be 

 unworthy of their notice. 



What renders the work well deserving of attention is the in- 

 formation it contains relative to the origin of many varieties, with 

 the originators of which Mr. Rogers had an opportunity of 

 being conversant, in consequence of his longevity, dating the . 

 commencement of his recollections almost at the middle of the 

 last century. Information of this sort is valuable ; for, when 

 the origin of a variety is clearly established by indisputable facts, 

 there is less chance of confusion afterwards from others attach- 

 ing a name to a variety, which they might consider they had a 

 right to do, in the case of one straying, as it were, without an 

 owner, and apparently as much the right of one as of another. 

 For instance, the Dumelow's seedling, or Wellington apple, is 

 sometimes called the Duke of Wellington: now, the latter name 

 would not have been likely to have been added to it, had it 

 been originally known that Dumelow raised the apple, and that 

 it had the name of Wellington from having been cultivated at 



