_Accurate as far as we go_ has been our motto. It is hoped the form is most convenient. All is arranged under one alphabet, with a complete index. The author has consulted many intelligent cultivators and writers, who, without exception, approve his plan. All agree in saying that it is designed to fill a place not occupied by any other single volume in the language. It is impossible, without cumbering the volume, to give suitable credit to the authors and persons consulted. Suffice it to say, the author has carefully studied all the works mentioned in this volume, and availed himself of a great variety of verbal suggestions, by scientific and practical men. If this work shall, in any good degree, serve the purpose for which it is intended, it will amply reward the author for an amount of labor, experiment, observation, and study, appreciable only by few. J. H. WALDEN. NEW YORK, _January 1, 1858_. ILLUSTRATIONS. PAGE Apple-Worms 22 Apple-Tree Borer 24 Caterpillar Eggs 25 Canker-Worm Moths 25 Baldwin Apple 34 Bellflower Apple 35 Early Harvest Apple 36 Spitzbergen Apple 37 Rhode Island Greening 38 Fall Pippin 39 Newtown Pippin 40 Rambo Apple 41 Rome Beauty 42 Westfield Seek-no-further 43 Northern Spy 44 Roxbury Russet 45 Swaar Apple 46 Maiden's Blush 47 Barberries 56 Working Bee, Queen and Drone 69 High-Bush Blackberry 83 Budding (Six Illustrations) 91 Cherries (Six Illustrations) 122