CATALOGUE OF FRUITS. 



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Myrtacece. Psidium, the guava. 



CucurUtacece. Cnciimis, the cucumher and melon ; Cucurbita, the gourd, 

 and pumpkin, and Carica, the pawpaw. 



Passiflordcece. Passiflora, the granadilla. 



Cactacece. Opuntia, the Indian fig. 



GrossuldcecB. Ribes, the gooseberry and currant. 



CaprifolidcecB. Cdrnus, the cornel, and Sambucus, the elder. 



Vaccindcece. Vaccinium, the bilberry, and Oxycoccus, the cranberry. 



Solandceas. Physalis, the winter cherry, and the Peruvian cherry ; Cap- 

 sicum, the Cayenne pepper ; Lycopersicum, the love-apple, and Solanum, the 

 egg-plant. 



MleagndcecB. Shepherdia, the buffalo berry. 

 Urticdcece. Ficus, the fig, and Morus, the mulberry. 

 JuglanddcecB. Juglans, the walnut, and Carya, the hickory. 

 CorylacecB. Castanea, the chestnut, and Cor-ylus, the filbert. 

 Musdcece. Musa, the banana. 

 BromelidcecB. Ananassa, the pine apple. 



1122. Geographically and HorticuUurally, these fruits may be arranged 

 as belonging to : 



1123. Climates analogous to that of Britain, and which can be grown in 

 the open air in British gardens, including the barberry, plum, cherry, 

 apple, pear, quince, medlar, raspberry, strawberry, goosebeny, currant, 

 cornel, elder, bilberry, cranberry, winter cherry, buffalo-berry, mulberry, 

 chestnut, filbert, walnut and hickory. 



1124. Climates analogous to that of the South of France, and which can 

 be grown against walls exposed to the South, or heated by flues in British 

 gardens, including the vine, almond, peach, nectarine, apricot, pomegranate, 

 and fig. 



1125. Climates sub-tropical^ or tropical, including the orange, lemon, 

 lime, and shaddock, Japan quince, guava, cucumber, melon, gourd, pumpkin, 

 pawpaw, granadilla, Peruvian cherry, Indian fig, Cayenne pepper, love- 

 apple, egg-plant, banana, and pine-apple. 



This last arrangement we shall adopt as the most suitable for horticul- 

 tural purposes, and we shall therefore treat first of hardy, or orchard fruits, 

 next of wall fruits, and lastly of house fruits. The cornel, buffalo berry, 

 pomegranate, winter cherry, Peruvian cherry, guava, pawpaw, granadilla, 

 and Indian fig, are but little cultivated in British gardens, yet as the 

 possessor of a suburban garden may reasonably wish to taste all the fruits 

 that can be grown in any British garden whatever, whether small or large ; 

 and as a single plant of each kind of fruit will afford this gratification, and 

 occupy very little room in the garden, w^e thought it right to include them, 

 though of each we shall treat but very slightly. See the notice of the fru its 

 cultivated in our very limited garden at Bayswater, given in the Suburban 

 Gardener, p. 341. 



Those who wish for more extensive lists than we shall here give of the 

 fruits in common cultivation, will consult the Horticultural Society's Fruit 

 Catalogue, third edition ; those who wish to see engravings, and peruse bota- 

 nical descriptions, of the species of trees and shrubs from which the differ- 

 ent varieties of cultivated kinds have been originated, may consult the 

 Encychpcedia of Trees and Shrubs ; and those who wish to know the 



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