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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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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.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This 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.
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Publisher - Forgotten Books
Language - English
Hardback
Contributors
Author
George Jaques
Published Date -
ISBN - 9780267645732
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.4 cm
Page Count - 262
Paperback
Contributors
Author
George Jaques
Published Date -
ISBN - 9781331525233
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.4 cm
Page Count - 264
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