WOOBSMIILL AFPJLE 
( ' HE experienced pomologist will, it is hoped, 
satisfactory information regarding 
/M mi many varieties of fruit, of established merit, 
which he may be but partially ac- 
quainted ; and also descriptions of many 
of those which may never have previously 
come under his observation. There is, however, another section 
of our labour which may prove of much general importance : 
it is the searching for, and making public, those varieties of 
fruit — of Apples and Pears more especially, which have hitherto 
been confined to the localities in which they originated. Pre- 
viously to having opened a correspondence on the subject, with 
practical men, in every part of the kingdom, we confess to hav- 
ing been wholly unaware of the great number of these which exist 
in our island. The Horticultural Society of London has done 
much towards the discovery of, and making known, many of 
