Excerpt from Lovett's Illustrated Catalogue of Trees and Plants: For the Autumn of 1882 Sharpless did better the past season than I have ever known it, being more productive than usual and the largest of all; I find it is not particularly heavy soil, this variety requires to do well, but exceedingly high culture. The soil must be rich. And well manured also to have it 'do its best. 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.