Excerpt from The Illustrated Annual Register of Rural Affairs and Cultivator Almanac, for the Year 1859: Containing Practical Suggestions for the Farmer and Horticulturist, Embellished With One Hundred and Forty Engravings, Including Houses, Farm Buildings, Implements, Fruits, Flowers, Etc Here we have Complete Descriptions of sixty-one Varieties of Apples, Sum mer, Fall and Winter, Sweet and Sour; fifty-four of Pears, Summer, Autumn and Winter; twenty-eight of Peaches; six of Nectarines; four of Apricots' thirty-four of Plums twenty-eight o Cherries thirteen of Strawberries; and a Dozen of Native and Foreign Grapes. Also approved lists at still greater length. And smaller select lists for limited assort ments. 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.