AND

FRUIT TREE

OF

AMERICA:

OR

THE CULTURE, PROPAGATION, AND MANAGEMENT, IN THE GARDEN
AND ORCHARD, OF FRUIT TREES GENERALLY;

WITH

DESCRIPTIONS OF ALL THE FINEST VARIETIES OF FRUIT,
NATIVE AND FOREIGN, CULTIVATED IN THIS

COUNTRY.

By A. J. DOWNING.

CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC SOCIETY OF LONDON; AND OF THE
HORTICULTURAL SOCIETIES OF BERLIN; THE LOW COUNTRIES; MASSACHU
SETTS; PENNSYLVANIA; INDIANA; CINCINNATI, ETC.

What won 'rous life is this I lead
Ripe apples drop about my head;
The lusci us lusters of the vine

Upon my mouth do crush their wine;
The nectrine and curious peach
Into my hands themselves do reach.

MARVELL.

ILLUSTRATED WITH MANY ENGRAVINGS.

NEW-YORK & LONDON.
WILEY AND PUTNAM.

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ENTERED according to Act of Congress, in the year 1845, by

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Southern District of New-York.

ΤΟ

MARSHALL P. WILDER, Esa.,

PRESIDENT OF THE

MASSACHUSETTS HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY,

THIS VOLUME IS DEDICATED,

BY HIS FRIEND,

THE AUTHOR.