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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
rJraTE 
Just Piiblisliecl. 
A NEW WORK ON APPLES. 
The nfliniature Fruit Carden, 
AMERICAN POMOLOGY. 
APPLES. 
By Doct. JOHN A. WARDEK, 
PBESIDENT OHIO POJIOLOGICAL SOCIETT ; VIOE-PBESIDENT 
AMEEICAK POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY, ETC. 
SOS Illitsli's&tioiis. 
To pomologists a work by Dr. Warder will need no 
commendation. Though a citizen of Ohio, he is so sure 
to be at any pomological gathering, be it East or West, 
that the whole country claims him, and if any one has a 
right to entitle his work American Pomology it is certain¬ 
ly Dr. Warder. The present is the first instalment of a 
work intended to cover the whole ground. In it the 
author has attempted the difilcult task of bringing apples 
into something like order. 
This volume has about 160 pages, the first 316 of ivhich 
are devoted to the discussion of the general subjects of 
propagation, nursery culture, selection and planting, cul¬ 
tivation of orchards, care of fruit, insects, and the like; 
the remainder is occupied with descriptions of apples. 
With the richness of material at hand, the trouble was to 
decide what to leave out. It will be found that while the 
old and standard varieties are not neglected, the new and 
promising sorts, especially those of the South and West, 
have prominence. A list of selections for different lo¬ 
calities by eminent orchardists is a valuable portion of 
the volume, while the Analytical Index or Catalogue 
Saisonne, as the French would say, is the most extended 
American fruit list ever published, and gives evidence of 
a fearful amount of labor. 
This differs from any fruit book heretofore published in 
this country, in its complete classification of apples. The 
author gives the principal European systems and mod¬ 
estly puts forth his own to be tested by practice. He di¬ 
vides apples into four classes, according to their forms. 
Each of these classes is sub-divided by other obvious 
characters, and it would seem that any apple described in 
the book might be easily identified. We trust that this 
will prove a great help to the pomologist. 
Fruit-growers will welcome this book as a valuable and 
Jong-wished for addition to pomological literature, and it 
will be found equally useful to the novice and the experi¬ 
enced orchardist. The work has 293 illustrations, is 
printed on good paper and well bound. 
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Pyramidal and Basil Fruit Trees. 
BY THOMAS ItIVERS. 
- Nothing is more gratifying than the cultivation of 
dwarf fruit trees, and this work tells how to doit success- 
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Dwarf Apples and Pears 
are beautiful ornaments, besides being useful in giving 
abundant crops of fruit; they can be grown in 
Small hardens and City Yards, 
and be readily removed. The work also gives the man¬ 
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Root Pruning 
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are given. 
Dwarf Clierries and Plums 
are treated of as are other dwarf trees. Directions are 
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Fig^s and Filberts. 
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R«y Vineyard at Lakeview; 
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The author gives not only his success, hut what is of 
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