THE

NEW AMERICAN ORCHARDIST;

OR, AN ACCOUNT OF

THE MOST VALUABLE VARIETIES

OF

FRUIT,

OF ALL CLIMATES,

ADAPTED TO CULTIVATION IN THE UNITED STATES;

WITH THEIR

HISTORY, MODES OF CULTURE, MANAGEMENT, USES, &c.

WITH AN APPENDIX,

ON

VEGETABLES,

ORNAMENTAL TREES, SHRUBS, AND FLOWERS,

THE AGRICULTURAL RESOURCES OF AMERICA,
AND ON SILK, &c.

BY WILLIAM KENRICK.

Seventh Edition, Enlarged and Improved.

WITH A SUPPLEMENT.

BOSTON:

OTIS, BROADERS, AND COMPANY.

1844.

2130

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1841, BY WILLIAM Kenrick,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Massachusetts.

TO THE

SIR,

HON. JOHN LOWELL, LL. D

I AM happy in being enabled to inscribe this work to a gentleman whose name is so intimately associated with all the great improvements connected with Agriculture and Horticulture, during more than a quarter of a century. The many valuable productions- the donations from Mr. Knight, and from other sources-by you so extensively disseminated; your disinterested and distinguished zeal to encourage and enlighten in all useful pursuits, and especially those to which this work is principally devoted, are not only highly appreciated by contemporaries, but posterity will know and acknowledge their value.

Please to accept this dedication, not only as an acknowledgment of the many favors received, but as an expression of my high estimation of your manifold and successful efforts in all that concerns the best interests of our country.

With the highest respect and esteem,

Your obedient servant,

WILLIAM KENRICK.

ADVERTISEMENT

то THE SEVENTH

EDITION.

THE present edition of this work has been revised with very particular attention and care; all the latest and most eminent writers of Europe, which have come to hand, having been diligently consulted, and the experience of the most intelligent of our own country. In this edition, many important improvements will be found, and many additions, particularly in regard to fruits. The list of these, although so complete in the former editions, is yet, in this, greatly improved; and especially in those fine new kinds which have been so lately proved by Mr. Thompson and others, at the Garden of the London Horticultural Society at Chiswick, and elsewhere in England, and in France; or more latterly approved with us. During visits of the author to those countries in the autumn of 1840, and years 1841-2, much information was collected by him from first-rate sources, from oral and other communications, which will be found in the following pages. In this, the seventh edition, other information, equally new, and not less important, will be found, to the period of this still later date.

NONANTUM HILL, January, 1844.

N. B. Throughout this work, a star is prefixed to those fruits only of whose excellence we are fully satisfied, either by proof, or by the most ample and satisfactory testimony.