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INTRODUCTION, 



dinary and unobseure diction will favor that 

 end. In most cases, where the classical 

 name has seemed to be necessary, it has 

 been inserted in italics. The professional 

 botanist and naturalist will, I hope, make 

 every allowance for a work that has no 

 other aim than to render the culture of fruit 

 easily accessible to the inquiring observer. 



In the Nursery department, which natu- 

 rally follows the phytology of trees, I have 

 given practical directions on the propagation 

 of fruit trees from seed, and the many me- 

 thods of grafting, budding, and bringing a 

 fruit tree into the proper size and state for 

 the final planting into the fruit garden and 

 orchard. In this part of the treatise, it will 

 be seen that I have rigidly adhered to a 

 system of raising fruit trees from seed, in 

 preference to that too often adopted of 

 growing young trees from suckers, which 

 are ever the offspring of a multitude of 

 young plants that rob the parent and impov- 

 erish the soil. 



In the different modes of culture of fruit, 

 I have described those methods, which ap- 

 peared the most simple and readily to be 

 accomplished, and such as will most surely 

 lead to a satisfactory result. To pretend to 

 elucidate every nice point belonging to the 



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