12 FRUIT-GARDENINO. 



generally ^commended. In doing this, I have had difficulties 

 to contend with, of the nature of which none but those who 

 have duly considered the subject can form any idea. The 

 facility with which seedling plants are raised, and the paternal 

 fondness with which people are apt to regard their own seed- 

 lings, have occasioned hundreds of names to appear in the 

 various catalogues, which tend not a little to swell the large 

 and increasing list of fruits. 



In many instances, the English, French, Spanish, and other 

 names, provisional, local, and barbarous, are given to the same 

 variety ; consequently, some finits appear in the different cata- 

 logues under all the varied names ; and the patience and labor 

 necessarily requisite for ascertaining which are really distinct 

 varieties, and which are most worthy of cultivation, are corre- 

 spondingly great. 



To exemplify : Suppose from a catalogue of Pears the fol- 

 lowing names should be selected by a person wishing to plant 

 as many varieties in his orchard — namely, Brown Beurre, 

 Beurre Oris, Beurre Rouge, Beurre Dore, Beurre cfAnjou, 

 Beurre d" Or, Beurre d' Amhleuse, Beurre iTAmboise, Poire 

 d'Amboise, Isamhert, Red Beurre, Golden Bmrre, Beurre du Roi, 

 White Dotenne, Doyenne Blanc, Doyenne, Beurre Blanc 

 Bonne-anU, Saint Michael, Carlisle, Citron de Septembre, 

 Kaiserbime, Poire a court queue, Poire de Limrni, Valmda, 

 Poire de Neige, Poire de Seigneur, Poire Monsieur, White 

 Beurre. Here is a list of twenty-nine kinds, as the purchaser 

 supposes, but when the trees produce their fruit, he finds, to 

 his great disappointment and mortification, that he has only 

 two varieties, namely, the Brown Beurre and the Wlute 

 Doyenne. 



In making out the descriptive lists, I have generally adopted 

 the names given in the catalogues of the most celebrated nur- 

 serymen, as a heading ; and have caused the synonymes, or 

 names by which the same variety is known, or has been called 

 to be printed in italics ; thus, my lists of about four hundred 

 varieties of the various kinds of fruit, will embrace what has 



