ACKNOWLEDGMENTS TO AUTHORITIES, CORRESPONDENTS, &c. THE descriptions of the fruits contained in the following pages are drawn from much personal observation, and from the most authentic testimonies and authorities, and from those alone on whom we may with confidence implicitly rely. Although most of them are already in our country, and have been already proved, yet many of them are new, and of very recent introduction. 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 country and the climate to which they properly belong. My obligations to the late Mr. Lowell I have elsewhere acknowledged, and my obligations to Gen. Dearborn, the first 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. I have availed also of the valuable communications of Messrs. Downer, of Dorchester; Buel, of Albany; S. G. Perkins, of Boston; of Col. Carr, of Bartram's Botanic Garden, near Philadelphia. I am also particularly indebted to the great intelligence and researches of Mr. Robert Thompson, of the Garden of the London Horticultural Society, and to Messrs. Ronald, Lee, Forrest, and other distinguished and intelligent cultivators in his vicinity; MM. Dalbret, Jamin, Vilmorin, Margat, and Lusette, and other intelligent individuals in or near Paris; M. Emilien De Wael, of Antwerp, in Belgium, to Col. Marshal P. Wilder, President of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society; and also to those very numerous individuals of our own country whom I have elsewhere named. LIST OF AUTHORS AND 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'Horticul ture 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. Vilmorin, for the year 1841. Paris. A work of over 1000 pages, annually published in that city for nearly a hundred 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. political writer. American Gardener, by Wm. Cobbett, a celebrated CoxE.-View of the Cultivation of Fruit Trees, &c., in the United States of America, &c., by William Coxe, Esq. 8vo. Philadelphia, 1817. 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. D'ALBRET.-Cours Théorique et Pratique de la Taille des Arbres Fruitiers, par D'Albret. 3d edition, Paris, 1840. DOM. ENCY.-Domestic Encyclopedia, by A. F. M. Willich, M. D. Edition of Dr. James Mease, 5 vols. 8vo. Philadelphia, 1803. DUн. O. DUH.-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 Encyclopædia, 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. FORSYTH.-Treatise on the Culture and Management of Fruit Trees, &c., by William Forsyth, Esq. Seventh edition, 8vo. London, 1824. COUNT DE HAZZI, Counsellor of State of Munich, author of "Complete Instructions for the Plantation and Management of Mulberry Trees, and the REARING OF SILK-WORMS." Transmitted by him, through Dr. Mease, to Congress. A professed disciple of the Comte Dandolo and M. Bonafous. HOOKER. - Pomona Londinensis, containing Representations of the best Fruits cultivated in British Gardens, by William Hooker, Esq., F. L. S. H. S. 4to., with colored plates. HORT. SOC. CAT. Catalogue of the Fruits cultivated in the Garden of the Horticultural Society of London, at Chiswick 8vo. 1826. Also, the Descriptive Catalogue of 1831, which is ascribed to Mr. Robert Thompson. HORT. TRANS.-Transactions of the Horticultural Society of London. 4to. 8 vols. MAG. HORT.—The Magazine of Horticulture, Botany, and all useful Discoveries and Improvements in Rural Affairs, by C. M. Hovey. A highly useful monthly work, published at Boston. JAMIN. Catalogue raisonné des Arbres Fruitiers of M. Jean St. Laurent de Jamin, Paris, 1838; and Manuscripts of 1841, from same source. MR. KNIGHT. Thomas Andrew Knight, Esq., F. R. S. L. S., &c., late the President of the London Horticultural Society, and the author of nearly a hundred articles in the London Hort. Trans., &c. &c., and author of several works on Rural Economy. LINDLEY. A Guide to the Orchard and Kitchen Garden, or an Account of the most valuable Fruits and Vegetables cultivated in Great Britain; with Calendars of the Work required in the Orchard and Kitchen Garden, during every Month in the Year; by George Lindley, C. M. H. S. London, 1831. LOUDON. Encyclopædia of Gardening, &c., by John C. Loudon, F. L. S. H. S., &c. London, 8vo. 1825. A work of 1233 condensed pages, and several hundred engravings. LOUD. GARD. MAG.-The Gardener's Magazine, by the same author. A most superior work, in periodical numbers. MICHAUX. The North American Sylva, or a Description of the Forest Trees, &c., with 156 colored engravings, by F. André Michaux. 2 vols. 8vo. Paris, 1819. MILLER.-The Gardener's and Botanist's Dictionary, &c., by Philip Miller, F. R. S. 2 vols. folio. Revised by Professor Martyn. London, 1819. NEILL. Patrick Neill, Esq., A. M. F. L. S., author of the article on Horticulture in the Edinburgh Encyclopædia, of the "Horticultural Tour," and other works; Secretary of the Caledonian Horticultural Society, &c. NOUV. COURS COMPLET D'AGRI. COURS COMPLET. - Nouveau Cours Complet d'Agriculture, &c., ou Dictionnaire raisonné et uni versel d'Agriculture, by the members of the Section of Agriculture of the Institute of France, viz. MM. Thouin, Parmentier, Tessier Huzard, Silvestre, Bosc, Chassiron, Chaptal, Lacroix, De Perthius Yvart, De Candolle, Du Tour, Du Chesne, Feburier, De Brebisson, and Rosier, (R.) 16 vols. 8vo. Paris, 1823. CHEV. PARMENTIER. The Chevalier Joseph Parmentier, of Enghein; description of various new fruits in Hort. Trans. DR. PASCALIS.-The Silk Culturist, &c., published in numbers, by Dr. Felix Pascalis. New York. Also author of "Practical Directions on the Culture of the Mulberry and of Silk," &c. PHILLIPS. Pomarium Britannicum; an Historical and Botanical Account of Fruits known in Great Britain; by Henry Phillips, F. H. S., &c. 8vo. London, 1823. POITEAU.-A. Poiteau, one of the conductors of the Bon Jardinier and the New Duhamel; and author of many of the articles in Annales d'Horticulture, &c. POM. MAG. -Pomological Magazine, or Figures and Descriptions of the most important Varieties of Fruit cultivated in Great Britain. 3 vols. 8vo. London. A late work. PYRUS MALUS BRENT.- Pyrus Malus Brentfordiensis, or a concise Description of selected Apples, by Hugh Ronalds, F. H. S., &c., with colored engravings. QUINTINIE. The Complete Gardener, or Directions for cultivating of Fruit Gardens and Kitchen Gardens; with divers Reflections on several Parts of Husbandry. In 6 books. By the famous M. de la Quintinie. Made English by John Evelyn, Esq. 1693. J. RIVERS, Jr. - Descriptive Catalogue of Fruits, &c.; also various articles on fruits in Loudon's Magazine. ROSIER. Cours Complet d'Agriculture, theorique, practique, economique, &c., ou Dictionnaire universel d'Agriculture, &c. 15 vols. 4to. Paris, 1801. SPEECHLY.-William Speechly; a Treatise on the Culture of the Vine, &c. 8vo. DR. THACHER, author of the American Orchardist, and various other valuable works, on history, medicine, &c. &c. THOMPSON. Robert Thompson, of the London Horticultural Society's Garden at Chiswick; distinguished alike for his accuracy, intelligence, and research. Much of what is most valuable in the Pom. Mag. is ascribed to him. Also the undoubted author of the descriptive Cat. Lond. Hort. Soc. for 1831. THOUIN.-Monographie de Greffes, ou Description technique de diversés Sortes de Greffes, employées pour la Multiplication des Végétaux, par la Chevalier de André Thouin, Professor, &c. in the University of Paris. Paris, &c. Folio, with plates. VAN MONS. Dr. Jean Baptiste Van Mons. Catalogue des Arbres Fruitiers, &c. Louvaine, 1823. Also, Pomographie Belgique Moderne. 4to., with plates. This work is still in progress, and but a small part of it has been received from him. These are in the Library of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society. DR. WILLICH.-All thus designated refer to the Domestic Encyclopædia: these were drawn from the works of I. L. Christ, a clergyman of Kronburg, near Frankfort on the Maine. Catalogue of the Fruits cultivated in the Garden of the Horticultural Society of London. Third edition. 1842. By Mr. Robert Thompson, superintendent of that department in that most renowned establishment; these descriptions being, many of them, new and invaluable, and his authority transcendent. |