SPLENDID NEW WORK ON FRUIT. THE FRUITS OF AMERICA, BY C. M. HOVEY, EDITOR OF THE MAGAZINE OF HORTICULTURE. CONTAINING RICHLY COLORED ENGRAVINGS, ACCOMPANIED WITH THE WOOD AND FOLIAGE, OF ALL THE CHOICEST FRUITS CULTIVATED IN THE UNITED STATES. From Paintings from Nature, made expressly for this Work, CHROMOLITHED AND RETOUCHED UNDER HIS DIRECTION. THE LETTER PRESS TO CONTAIN A FULL DESCRIPTION OF THE FRUITS, THE HABIT THE ORIGIN AND PERIOD OF INTRODUCTION, AND ALL OTHER THE Work will appear in Royal Octavo Numbers, (uniform with Audubon's Birds of America,) and will contain four plates each, with Eight Pages of letter-press, on the finest paper, and in beautiful type; the Original Paintings executed by that distinguished artist, W. SHARP, chromolithed and retouched under his eye. The text will give all the Synonyms under which each variety is known, its origin, when to be ascertained, its period of introduction, with an accurate description of the Habit of the Tree, Wood, Leaves, Flowers, and Fruit, the Period of Ripening, and all other particulars worthy of note. The whole, with a few exceptions in the early numbers, from Specimen Trees in the extensive collection of the Author, where their comparative merits, in the same soil and locality, can be correctly estimated. The Plates will not be numbered or paged, but left with a blank No., so that each Class of Fruit may be bound up by itself, arranged alphabetically, according to the season of ripening, or in any other way, when the Work is completed, or together as issued, at the option of Subscribers. Twelve Numbers will complete a Volume, which will be furnished with a Title-Page and Index. A list of Subscribers will accompany each Volume. The First Number was issued in APRIL, 1847, and the succeeding Numbers will appear on the First of every alternate month. No. I contained the following varieties of fruits : BEURRE D' AREMBERG PEAR, GLOUT MORCEAU PEAR, VAN MONS LEON LE CLERC PEAR, BALDWIN APPLE. : No. II will appear in JULY, and will contain the following:- WINTER NELIS PEAR, SIEULLE PEAR, NORTHERN SPY APPLE. No. III will appear in AUGUST, and will contain the following:- MAY BIGARREAU CHERRY, HOVEY'S SEEDLING STRAWBERRY, BOSTON PINE STRAWBERRY. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: In Royal Octavo, richly colored, at $1 per number, payable on delivery. A limited number of impressions in Imperial quarto, very highly finished, $2 per number. BOSTON: PUBLISHED BY C. C. LITTLE AND J. BROWN, 112, WASHINGTON STREET; HOVEY & CO., 7, MERCHANTS ROW. NEW YORK: D. APPLETON & Co., 200 BROADWAY. PHILADELPHIA: G. S. APPLETON, CHESTNUt Street. LONDON: WILLIAM SMITH, 113, FLEET STREET. AMERICAN AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION. LYCEUM BUILDING, NO. 561 BROADWAY, NEAR PRINCE STREET, NEW YORK. PREMIUM LIST FOR THE EXHIBITION ON THE 15TH SEPTEMBER, 1847. This Exhibition will remain open Two Days, (the 15th and 16th). Strangers bringing choice plants, &c., to the city from a distance are notified that they will be taken care of by Mr. JAMES HOGG, 562 Broadway, who will also furnish circulars containing the regulations, &c., to post-paid applications. Persons intending to exhibit flowers, fruits, or vegetables are particularly requested to notify Mr. Hogg, by mail or otherwise, in order that arrangements may be made for the proper exhibition of their specimens. RARE AND CHOICE VARIETIES OF PEARS. HOVEY & CO. Respectfully invite the attention of amateur cultivators to their immense collection of Fruit Trees, of all kinds, more particularly pears, embracing every variety to be obtained either in Europe or in this country. Their collection is unequalled, both for extent and variety. Upwards of six hundred specimen trees have been planted out on the borders of the walks, extending a mile, a great many of which are already in bearing, affording a fine opportunity for the inspection of the fruit. They would particularly invite attention to the following kinds, of which they have a fine stock, with the exception of the very rare sorts, of which the number is limited : Swan's Orange, (or Onondaga).-The finest and largest autumn pear known. Fine thrifty trees, $2 each. Beurré Langelier.-A fine melting January pear. Fine trees, of all sizes, $1 to $5 each. Jersey Gratioli.—One of the richest October pears. $1 each. Paradise d'Automne.-One of the finest pears. $1 each. Grosse Calebasse.-Fruit said to weigh upwards of twenty ounces, to be eight inches long. Fine trees, $2 each. and Doyenne Boussock.-A very large and delicious October pear. $1 50 each. $1 each. St. André. A new pear from Van Mons, very fine. $1 each. With many others equally new and rare, of which the following are enumerated: |