Excerpt from American Pomology: Apples<br><br>All patriots may realize a sense of 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 Jove 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 claim ing 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.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>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.