Excerpt from The Pomological Manual, or a Treatise on Fruits, Vol. 1: Containing Descriptions of a Great Number of the Valuable Varieties for the Orchard and GardenThe association Of such men as possess not only great intelligence, but are also ardently attached to Horticulture, and anxious for its complete elucida tion, has given to your Society a distinguished claim to public respect, and has also created a high Opinion Of its present and anticipation Of its future usefulness.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.