Excerpt from The Fruit Grower's Instructor, Being a Practical Treatise on the Cultivation and Treatment of Fruit Trees: Containing a Description of All the Best Fruits Now in Cultivation, a Full Description of the Apple Fly, Commonly Called the American Blight, Which Causes the Canker in Apple Tree, With an Effectual Remedy: It Will Be Found Equally Useful to the Gentleman It is necessary to prefix a Preface to a work of this nature, to give the reader such information as may be useful during its perusal; to explain and point out the nature and arrangements of its principal parts, likewise to duly prepare him for what the work contains, which is of great advantage both to the author and himself. 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.