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work_3jo3anhb3fer3pokxqzxz6kbui	Emily Pawley	Cataloging Nature: Standardizing Fruit Varieties in the United States, 1800–1860	2016.0	25	.pdf	application/pdf	11385	818	60	Buried in the New York State Agricultural Society's Transactions for1842 is a short, irritable essay called "Hints on Describing Fruit." Its Thomas, "Hints on Describing Fruits," in Transactions of the New York State nurseryman and author Andrew Jackson Downing boasted, "the planting of fruit-trees in one of the newest States numbers nearly a quarter 10 Prince & Sons, Catalogue of Fruit and Ornamental Trees and Plants (New York, 1823). in their names.17 Unlike a species, the fruit tree variety was not a population of similar individuals encountered in a landscape, but a network of majority of American colonists during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, grafted fruit was a little-known luxury. free specimens to corresponding nurserymen for testing and distribution, Prince's connection gave him access to the 3,825 fruit varieties fruit in Covent Garden.50 Overseas taste for American apples made possible places like the Pell Orchard of Esopus, New York, which claimed to	./cache/work_3jo3anhb3fer3pokxqzxz6kbui.pdf	./txt/work_3jo3anhb3fer3pokxqzxz6kbui.txt