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Excerpt from Elliott's Fruit Book: Or, the American Fruit-Brower's Guide in Orchard and Garden Few objects are more engaging than the culture of fruit Hope, with all her pleasing fancies, encircles every planter of a fruit tree; while year after year, as it is nurtured and advanced to a bearing state, Hope yet remains entwined with prospective reality; until at last its branches, loaded with ripe, ruddy, delicious fruits, bear out the goddess in sustaining the efforts of man to gratification of taste and feeling, as well as profit pecuniary. Fortunate is it for the author of a work on fruits in this practical age, that no excuse is required for presenting himself before the public, or crowding upon ground apparently now so fully occupied. Hazardous as the thought may appear, after so much of matter upon the subject has been prepared and published, minutely, practically, and theoretically explanatory, by such writers as Coxe, Lindley, Downing, Thomas, and others, I yet have imagined there was room for another work at least it may induce an extended interest in the subject; and in a country so broad of extent - so prolific of fruits and men - composed of such great diversity of soil and climate as ours, there may possibly be garnered some little items that heretofore have escaped the vision of my brother lovers of the subject Pleasantly, therefore, during the past ten years, have I been nurturing of trees and noting their products; gradually have I drawn in from the stores of my many friends, the votaries of Pomona, specimens of their skill and trust. These I have carefully examined and compared, and have meted to them in the following pages such award as seemed to me just. 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.