Produced by Jeannie Howse, Steven Giacomelli and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images produced by Core Historical Literature in Agriculture (CHLA), Cornell University) * * * * * +------------------------------------------------------------+ | Transcriber's Note: | | | | Inconsistent hyphenation in the original document has | | been preserved. Bolded text has been marked =like so=. | | Greek text has been marked +like so+. | | | | A Table of Contents has been added for the reader's | | convenience. There is no Chapter 13 or figure 114. | | | | In the classification chapter the author uses different | | sizes for the "Class" and "Order" headers, the smaller | | "Order" headers are delineated +like so+. And inconsistant | | illustration placement has been regularized. | | | | Obvious typographical errors have been corrected. For | | a complete list, please see the end of this document. | | | +------------------------------------------------------------+ * * * * * AMERICAN POMOLOGY. APPLES. BY DOCT. JOHN A. WARDER, PRESIDENT OHIO POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY; VICE-PRESIDENT AMERICAN POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY, ETC. 290 ILLUSTRATIONS. NEW YORK: ORANGE JUDD AND COMPANY. 245 BROADWAY. Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1867, by ORANGE JUDD & CO., At the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. LOVEJOY & SON, Electrotypers and Stereotypers, 15 Vandewater St., N.Y. PREFACE. All patriots may realize a sense of pride, when they consider the capabilities of the glorious country in which we are favored to live; and while fostering no sectional feelings, nor pleading any local interests, yet, as Americans and as men, we may be allowed to love our own homes, our own neighborhoods, our States and regions; and we may be permitted to think them the brightest and best portions of the great Republic to which we all belong. Therefore the writer asks to be excused for expressing a preference for his own favored _Northwest_, and while claiming all praise for this noble expanse, he wishes still to be acknowledged as most devotedly an AMERICAN CITIZEN, who feels the deepest interest in the prosperity of the whole country.