THE 



POMOLOGICAL MANUAL; 



OR, 



A TREATISE ON FRUITS : 



CONTAINING 



DESCRIPTIONS OF A GREAT NUMBER 



OF THE MOST VALUABLE VARIETIES 



FOR THE ORCHARD AND GARDEN. 



" When Autumn basks, with fruit empurpled deep, 

 My pleasing theme continual prompts my thought; 

 Presents the downy peach ; the shining plum ; 

 The ruddy, fragrant nectarine ; and dark, 

 Beneath his ample leaf, the luscious tig." 



BY WILLIAM ROBERT :^RINCE, 



Author of a Treatise on the Vine, ^cc. 



AIDED BY 



WILLIAM PRINCE, 



Proprietor of the Linniean Botanic Garden and Nurseries ; Vice-President of the New- York 

 Horticultural Society; Member of the Linnaean Society of Paris; of the Horticultural Societies 

 of London and Paris; of the Imperial Society of the Georgofili at Florence ; Honorary Member 

 of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, etc. etc. 



PART I. 



SECOND EDITION. 



NE W.YORK: 



PUBLISHED BY T. & J. SWORDS, G. & C & H. CARVILL, E. BLISS, COLLINS & CO. 

 G. THORBURN & SONS, NEW- YORK ; JUDAH DOBSON, PHILADELPHIA : 

 I. B. RUSSELL, BOSTON ; GIDEON B. SMITH, BALTIMORE ; 

 JAMES WINSTON, RICHMOND ; AND .lOSEPH 

 SIMMONS, CHARLESTON, S. C. 



1832. 



