14 A COMPLETE LIST OF KINDS. 
To remedy the injurious effects and prevent a 
continuance of this needless expense to the planter, 
should be sufficient inducements for establishing hor- 
ticultural societies in every town ; these societies to co- 
operate with each other through the medium of Coun- 
ty, State and National Pomological Societies. In this 
way more useful and definite information would soon 
be obtained. The town societies should discuss free- 
ly at their meetings the merits and demerits of the 
different varieties, and their adaptability to certain 
localities. A very complete list of kinds suited to 
particular localities and climates, could soon be ar- 
rived at. This would, in the course of a few years, 
enable parties to make a better selection of fruit, 
and much uncertainty that now exists would be 
avoided. There has been much accomplished by a 
few energetic societies, but there is still a wide field 
for improvement. I am constantly asked: “‘ What 
kinds shall I plant for table use, and what kinds for 
market?” These are difficult questions to answer, 
when it is well known that we have only a few 
varieties that succeed well in all localities. The 
Bartlett, Duchesse d’Angouléme, Seckel and Vicar 
of Winkfield, with a few others, are favorably known 
in nearly every locality, and do well in most situa- 
tions; but people want a more extended list of 
varieties, and in many cases they have repented of 
