THE 
COLOURED FIGURES AND DESCRIPTIONS OF THE MOST ESTEEMED KINDS OF 
APPLES AND PEARS. 
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS DRAWN AND COLOURED FROM NATURE BY MISS ELLIS AND MISS BULL. 
TECHNICAL EDITOR: ROBERT PIOGG, LL.D., F.L.S., 
Honorary Member of the Woolhope Naturalists’ Field Club; Vice-President of the Royal Horticultural Society ; 
Author of ‘The Fruit Manual’; 1 British Pomology’; ‘ The Vegetable Kingdom and its Products ’, crc., crc. 
“ 7je(pvplt] 7 rveiovcra tu fiev (pvei aX\a Se ireercreL 
oygyrj eir o'yfyV ocuricei, /u.>j\ov S' e7ri iur]\w, 
avrap 67ri arTacpvXij <TTacf)v\r], ctvkov fTe 7 rl ctvkw.” 
Homer Odyssey vii. ng-22. 
“The balmy spirit of the western gale, 
Eternal breathes on fruits untaught to fail ; 
Each dropping pear, a following pear supplies, 
On apples apples, figs on figs arise.” 
Pope. 
General Editor: HENRY GRAVES BULL, M.D., &c„ J.P. for the City and 
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County of Hereford. 
VOLUME I. 
HEREFORD : JAKEMAN AND CARVER, HIGH TOWN. 
LONDON : JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE OFFICE, 171, FLEET STREET, E.C. 
1876 — 1885 . 
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