Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from A Practical Treatise on the Management of Fruit Trees: With Descriptive Lists of the Most Valuable Fruits for General Cultivation; Adapted to the Interior of New England
A book of this kind is so greatly needed, to guide the Operations of a large and increasing class of our citizens that even comparative incompetency may not have labor ed upon it in vain.
If. There are pears which ripen finely at Salem, but will not succeed in Boston; if the climates of Western New York and the shores of the Hudson differ so widely, as to affect the quality of several varieties of different species Of fruits, one might easily infer - what it has cost the writer something to learn - that whoever would suc ceed with fruit-trees, in the hill-country of the eastern states, may rely with tolerable safety upon the uncertain testimony of his own neighborhood, while the profoundest wisdom that has ever recorded the experience of other countries, would only, mislead and bewilder.
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