Literary Testimonials to the Fruit Cultivator. 



very useful and instructive hints." — Pa,rton*s Horticultural 

 Register, 



" What more especially pleases us in this book, is its 

 perfect freedom from pretension, and an utter absence in 

 its pages of those ridiculous technicalities which have 

 hitherto been the worst enemies to the progress of botany, 

 and indeed of science in general. * * * Here is common 

 sense applied to gardening ; and we would strongly recom- 

 mend our readers, w^ho delight in gardens, orchards, pine- 

 ries, and hot-houses, to peruse Mr. Rogers's unpretending 

 volume.'* — Monthly Magazine. 



Directions are given for planting, pruning, training, 

 the formation of fruit-tree borders and orchards, the ga- 

 thering and storing of fruit: in a word, every thing w^hich 

 can be desired is handled in a plain, instructive manner, 

 in such a way as a practical man alone is capable of doing 

 it.'* — Irish Farmers' and Gardeners' Magazine, conducted hij 

 Martin Doyle, 



" This little work treats of every variety of fruit that 

 may be cultivated in our gardens. The author first unfolds 

 the character of the tree, the nature of the soil, and the 

 peculiar aspect in which it delights : he next passes on to 

 the general mode of treatment and cultivation adopted to 

 the genus, and then comes down to each species, of which 

 he presents a detailed Catalogue raisonnSe'' — Spectator, 



" A plain, very useful, and practical guide to the culti- 

 vation of all our garden and orchard fruits. There is no 

 part of the subject neglected; and from choosing and 

 planting to gathering the best crops, we are taught how 

 to proceed in a clear and instructive manner. Even if we 

 had two seasons every year, as we almost have had in 1834 

 (for we picked from a second crop of raspberries this 

 week) , Mr. Rogers's work w^ould only be doubly worthy of 

 attention."— Lf?e?r^r?*^ Gazette, 



" Here the young gardener and the amateur cultivator 

 need be under no alarm of betrayal by crude theories and 

 speculative suggestions : they may come at once to the 

 results of considerably more than half a century's daily 

 experience, and so arrive at every thing that is beneficial 

 in practice, or valuable as a system. * * * The oldest 

 gardener need not be ashamed to con the pages of the 

 Fruit Cultivator, and the youngest will find in them a com- 

 plete treasury of knowledge. * * * We shall conclude 

 our brief but cordial commendation of this really useful 

 little volume, which is judiciously published at a price 

 accessible to the means of a w^orking gardener, by quoting 

 the ADVICE with w^hich Mr. R. closes his Introduction." — 

 Nicholson's Commercial Gazette. 



