SCAKLET TO^^FAEEIEo 
’ T is (juite evident that the cultivation of fruits 
as well as of flowers, is gi’eatly on the increase 
in this country ; and when we consider that 
the more free use of fruits and vegetables has 
i,been esteemed for the last two or three centu- 
iries, as a gradually operating antidote to some 
of the most dire diseases to which the human frame is liable, as 
leprosy, scrofula, &c., it becomes a gratifjdng labour to give en- 
couragement to their cultivation, for their salutary as well as 
their pleasurable attributes. Formerly all our best fniit ti'ees 
were introduced from the continent, but of late years many 
valuable varieties have been raised in England, and amongst 
these may be reckoned the one we have now to describe — the 
Scarlet Nonpareil. 
The name Nonpareil, signifies wthout an equal ; hence we 
ti'ace the value attached to the Nonpareil Apple by its nomen- 
clators. That variety of which we now give a figure, has 
