Excerpt from The Southern Planter, Vol. 20: Devoted to Agriculture, Horticulture, and the Household Arts, November 1860But a more common and serious dificulty under which we labor, is' the romulgation of seedlingsby individuals an associations that have not the information requisite to form an intelligent, and therefore reliable judgment. Another evil which increases with the mania for what is new and rare, is the exposure for sale, by ¿aming advertise ments and speculating agents, of old varie ties under new and specious names, varieties which, like Jonah's gourd, were known in their day and place, but have long been con signed to oblivion.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.