hor has consulted many intelligent cultivators and
writers, who, without exception, approve his plan. All agree in saying
that it is designed to fill a place not occupied by any other single
volume in the language. It is impossible, without cumbering the volume,
to give suitable credit to the authors and persons consulted. Suffice it
to say, the author has carefully studied all the works mentioned in this
volume, and availed himself of a great variety of verbal suggestions, by
scientific and practical men. If this work shall, in any good degree,
serve the purpose for which it is intended, it will amply reward the
author for an amount of labor, experiment, observation, and study,
appreciable only by few.

J. H. WALDEN.

NEW YORK, _January 1, 1858_.

ILLUSTRATIONS.

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Apple-Worms 22

Apple-Tree Borer 24

Caterpillar Eggs 25

Canker-Worm Moths 25

Baldwin Apple 34

Bellflower Apple 35

Early Harvest Apple 36

Spitzbergen Apple 37

Rhode Island Greening 38

Fall Pippin 39

Newtown Pippin 40

Rambo Apple 41

Rome Beauty 42

Westfield Seek-no-further 43

Northern Spy 44

Roxbury Russet 45

Swaar Apple 46

Maiden's Blush 47

Barberries 56

Working Bee, Queen and Drone 69

High-Bush Blackberry 83

Budding (Six Illustrations)