Excerpt from The Fruits and Fruit Trees of America, or the Culture, Propagation, and Management, in the Garden and Orchard, of Fruit Trees Generally: With Descriptions of All the Finest Varieties of Fruit, Native and Foreign, Cultivated in This CountryIt is fortunate for an author, in this practical age, when his subject requires no explanation toshow its downright and direct usefulness. When I sayl heartily desire that every man should cultivate an orchard, or at least a tree, of good fruit, it is not necessary that I should point out how much both himself and the public will be, in every sense, the gainers. Otherwise I might be obliged to repeat the advice of Dr. Johnson to one of his friends. If possible, said he, have a good orchard. 1 know a clergyman Of small income who brought up a family very reputably, which he chiey fed on apple dump. Lings. (l) The first Object, then, of this work is to increase the taste for the planting and cultivation of fruit-trees.

The second one is to furnish a manual for those who, already more or less informed upon the subject, desire some work of reference to guide them in the Operations of culture, and in the selection of varieties.If it were only necessary for me to present for the acceptance of my readers a choice garland of fruit, comprising the few sorts that I esteem of the most priceless value, the space and time to be occupied would be very brief.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition.

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