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PART II 
HORTICULTURAL AND RURAL SUBJECTS. 
REVIEWS AND EXTRACTS. 
Article I .—ExtracU from JVorks on Horticulture^ and 
Rural and Domestic Economy. 
1.—Pyrus Malus Brentfordiensis; being a Concise 
Description of 170 sorts of selected Apples. By Hugh 
Ronalds, F.H.S. 4to. £4.. As. plain, £‘5.55. coloured. 
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The work before us is beautifully, we may say, splendidly got up; the ex¬ 
ecution of the plates is so exact, that we might fancy the identical apples 
were before us, if the delusion was not explained by the paper margins. 
Great praise is due to Mr. Ronalds for having set an example, which we 
hope will be followed. If the large nurserymen in the neighbourhood 
of London, were each of them to publish a work on any one family of 
fruits, similar to this work, of Mr.- Ronalds’s, persons wishing to make a 
selection of fruits, would have a guide to choose them by, to please 
both the eye and the taste. From the continued introduction of new 
kinds into notice, the difficulty of choosing the best sorts, becomes 
more and more perplexing, to persons not practically acquainted with the 
subject. There are few large nurserymen round London, but possess 
the advantage of publishing on some one kind, except grapes. The only 
work of merit, that has appeared of late, exclusively on the subject of 
fruit, is the Pomological Magazine, commenced by Mr. Sabine and Mr. 
Lindley, and which has been discontinued no doubt, for want of support. 
We never thought that work would be extensively circulated, however 
well conducted; because an individual must wait for years, before he 
could make a selection for pjantirg a new garden ; and the price of each 
plate, together with the descriptions, although excellent, were, notwith¬ 
standing, more expensive to the purchaser, than the tree itself could be. 
What rendered the work most valuable, were the synonymes attached 
to each description, when required. We consider that to be of immense 
importance, and much regret Mr. Ronalds has not adopted this method, 
and added them to his otherwise valuable work. We consider it very im¬ 
portant to know that the Ribstone Pippin has three other names: viz. Tra¬ 
vels Apple, Formosa Pippin, and Glory of York; and so on v. ith others. 
Our reasons are these—we are frequently asked if we have such and 
such an apple, Formosa Pippin for instance, and which is described as a 
most excellent fruit:—after ])urchasing the tree, we wait with consider¬ 
able anxiety for two or three years, and afterwards it proves to be nothing 
more than the RIbston Pippin, which, had we known, of course the 
cxp'^nse and anxiety would have been spared. We hope, in a second 
edition, Mr. Ronalds will consider what we have said. We also think it 
