Book of Fruits: Being a Descriptive Catalogue of the Most Valuable Varieties of the Pear, Apple, Peach, Plum and Cherry, for New-England Culture

THE POIOLOGICAL GARDEN was commenced in 1803, with the design of forming a large collection of specimen trees of such varieties of foreign and native fruits, as were hardy enough to endure the indemency of a northern winter. After a strict examination of the produce of these trees, carefully comparing the wood, the leaf and the fruit, with the figures and descriptions in the most popular works on Pomology, it was intended to select for permanent cultivation, those varieties which were at once fitted to the climate of New England, and of high merit in themselves. In furtherance of this purpose, we have assiduously culled from American catalogues all that we judged worthy of trial, and imported from the first European establishments, the fruits most in repute with the writers of their respective countries. We have never limited ourselves to one specimen, but have in every instance, procured trees of each name from many different sources, in order the more surely to arrive at correct conclusions respecting their identity, as well as to multiply our means of estimating their comparative value....... Read more