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Select List preparedfor this work, by Samuel Walker, 



President of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, as 



in accordance with his own experience, and in the order Oj 



their value, all things considered. 



Apples — Ehode Island Greening, Gravenstein, Baldwin 

 Early Harvest, Minister, Danver's Sweet, Bough, Eoxbury 

 Russet, Dyer, White Seeknofurther, Summer Bose, Porter, 

 Hubbardston Nonesuch, Fameuse, Summer Pearmain, Fall 

 Harvey, Bed Astrachan, Fall Pippin, Eiver, William's Fa- 

 vorite — 20. 



Pears — Vicar of Winkfield, (for its size, productiveness, 

 ong continuance, and many uses,) Bartlett, Beurre d'Arem- 

 berg, Seckel, Fondante d'Automne, Urbaniste, Bloodgood 

 Louise Bonne of Jersey on quince, Winter Nelis, Dear' 

 Corn's Seedling, Flemish Beauty, Glout Morceau, Madeleine 

 Beurre Bosc, Beurre Diel on quince, Bostiezer, Heachcote 

 Passe Colmar, Andrews, Golden Bilboa, Tyson, Dix — 22. 



Cherries — Black Tartarian, Black Eagle, Downer's Red, 

 Mayduke, Bigarreau, Knight's Early Black — 6. 



Peaches — Grosse Mignonne, George IV., Oldmixon Free, 

 Cooledge's Favorite, Crawford's Late, Late Bed Bare- 

 ripe — 6. 



Plums — Green Gage, Jefferson, Purple Gage, Columbia, 

 Washington, Imperial Gage — 6. 



Apricots — Moorpark, Breda, Royal. 



Nectarines — Elruge, Hunt's Tawny, New White, Early 

 Newington, Early Violet, Roman — 6. 



Native Grapes — Isabella, Catawba. 



List furnished by B. Manning, Pomological Garden,* Sa- 

 lem, Mass. 



Three best pears, early, middle, and late — Bartlett, Para- 

 dise d'Automne, Winter Nelis. 



Three best summer pears — Bloodgood, Bostiezer, Dear* 

 bom's Seedling. 



Three best autumn — Bartlett, Paradise d'Automne, Urba- 

 niste. 



Three best winter — Winter Nelis, Beurre d'Aremberg, 

 Easter Beurre. 



* Where nearly one thousand sorts are in bearing. T. Riven, in England has 

 •elected out of nearly one thousand, only four for market, viz., Bartlett, Beurre 

 d'Amalis, Capiaumtmt, and Louise Sonne of Jersey. The second and third, how- 

 ever, prove uo better than second quality, in this country. 



