ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS TO AUTHORI TIES, CORRESPONDENTS, &c. THE descriptions of the fruits contained in the following pages are drawn from the most authentic testimonies and authorities. Although most of them are already in our country, many of them are new, and of very recent introduction, but a portion only of the new kinds have as yet produced fruit with us. In the descriptions of the new foreign, and to us unknown kinds, I have sometimes adopted the accurate descriptions of the English for the exterior, while for the more important descriptions of the qualities and flavor of these same kinds, I have had recourse to the French authorities, or those possessed of climates analagous to our own. We shall be enabled to speak of them more decisively after having tried them in our own climate. To the more common or proper names, I have in many cases annexed the Botanical or descriptive names of the species or varieties; this being the only one and universal name, by which they are alike known in every part of civilized America and of Europe. I have also, to avoid confusion in the nomenclature, endeavored generally to preserve unaltered, the original or proper names, in the language of their own native country. These will serve in a measure to identify, and also to indicate the climate to which they properly belong. My obligations to Mr Lowell I have elsewhere acknowledged, and my obligations to Gen. Dearborn, the President of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society. I am also under very particular obligations to Mr Manning of Salem, for the many descriptions he has afforded me. All those articles marked R. M., are described on his authority, and are such as he has proved them to be in our climate. Those marked S. H. S. are on the authority of Stephen H, Smith, Esq. of Providence, R. I.; such have been by him approved as adapted to our climate. To him, therefore, I am particularly indebted. I have availed also of the valuable descriptions in the New England Farmer, of the valuable communications of Mr Downer of Dorchester. Also I have availed of communications from the following gentlemen: Messrs Buel of Albany, S. G. Perkins of Boston, John C. Gray of Boston, Robert Carr, proprietor of Bartram's Botanic Garden near Philadelphia, B. V. French of Boston, John Prince of Roxbury, Micah Leland of Sherburne, Gorham Parsons of Brighton, Wm. Prince and Wm. Robert Prince of the Linnæan Botanic Garden, Flushing, N. Y. These last named gentlemen are the authors of a work on Horticulture, also another on the Vine and another on Fruits; Andrew Parmentier, late of the Horticultural Garden, Brooklyn, N. Y.; E. M. Richards of Dedham; Leonard Stone of Watertown; E. Vose, jr. of Dorchester; A. D. Williams of Roxbury; Dr S. A. Shurtleff of Boston; Dr Ford of Alna, Me.; Dr Hildreth, of Marietta, Ohio; Dr Holmes, editor of the Maine Farmer, Winthrop, Me.; and many others. LIST OF AUTHORS & WORKS QUOTED OR REFERRED TO. ADLUM. - Memoir on the cultivation of the Vine in America, and the best mode of making wine, by John Adlum. 12mo. Washington, 1828. ANNALES D'HORTICULTURE. - Annales de la Société d'Horticulture de Paris, a valuable publication in monthly numbers. 8vo. BARNET. Description of the great collection of Strawberries at Chiswick, in vol. vi. Hort. Trans. by James Barnet, occupying 80 pages quarto. BON JARD.-Le Bon Jardinier, edited by M. Poiteau and M. Villorin, for the year 1828. Paris; a work annually published for nearly seventy years. Bosc. Louis Auguste Guillaume Bosc, F. L. S. H. S.; author of many articles in Nouveau Cours Complet d'Agriculture, and other works. COBBETT. American Gardener, by Wm. Cobbett, a celebrated political writer. COXE. View of the cultivation of Fruit Trees, &c. in the United States of America, &c., by William Coxe, Esq. 8vo. Philadelphia, 1817. CHEV. PARMENTIER. - The Chevalier Joseph Parmentier of Enghein; description of various new Fruits in Hort. Trans. DE CANDOLLE.-L. A. de Candolle, author of several articles in Nouveau Cours Complet d'Agriculture. A celebrated writer on Botany, &c. MR COBB.-Jonathan H. Cobb, Esq. of Dedham, Mass. author of an excellent Manual on the Mulberry and culture of Silk, published by order of the Legislature of Massachusetts, and also by order of Congress. DOM. ENCY.-Domestic Encyclopedia. by A. F. M. Willlch, M. D. Edition of Dr James Mease. 5 vols. 8vo. Philadelphia, 1803. DUн. O. DUн. Traité des Arbres Fruitiers, par Henri Lewis Duhamel de Monceau. 2 vols. 4to. Paris, 1768. N. DUH. - Nouveau Duhamel ou Traité des Arbres, Fruitiers, Nouvelle edition, Augmentée, &c. formerly conducted by Dr Loisleur Deslongchamps; now still continued by MM. Poiteau and Turpin; several vols. folio, with colored plates. Paris. ED. ENC.- Edinburgh Encyclopedia. American edition, by Dr Brewster. The article on Horticulture, to which this principally refers, was drawn up by Patrick Neill, Esq. FES. AMER. GARD. New American Gardener, containing practical directions on the culture of Fruits and Vegetables, &c. by Thomas G. Fessenden, Editor of the New England Farmer. |