Good evening and thank you for joining me for another boring books for bedtime.

I hope tonight selection provides all the boredom your busy brain needs to quiet down and let you get some sleep.

So find a comfortable spot,

adjust your volume, take a nice deep breath in, let it out slowly, and off we go.

This evening we're reading a wonderful book recommended by one of your fellow

listeners American P Pomology Apples by Dr. John A Warder, President Ohio

Pomeological Society, Vice President, American Pomeological Society, etc.

With 290 illustrations.

Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1867 by Orange Judd and Company at the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States

for the Southern District of New York.

Printed by Lovejoy and Son, Electrotypers and Stereotypers, 15 Van dewater Street, New York.

Let's begin.

Preface

All Patriots may realize a sense of pride

when they consider the capabilities of the pride when they consider the capabilities of the glorious country in which we are

favored to live, and while fostering no sectional feelings, nor pleading any local interests.

Yet, as Americans and as men, we may be allowed to love our own homes, our own neighborhoods, our states and regions, and we may

be permitted to think them the brightest and best portions of the Great Republic to which we all belong.

Therefore, the writer asks to be excused for expressing a preference for his own favored northwest.

And while claiming all praise for this noble expanse,

he wishes still to be acknowledged as most devotedly an American citizen who feels the deepest interest in the prosperity of the whole country.

His fellow laborers in the extensive field of horticulture, who are scattered over the Great

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