Excerpt from Pear Culture: A Manual for the Propagation, Planting, Cultivation, and Management of the Pear Tree; With Descriptions and Illustrations of the Most Productive of the Finer Varieties, and Selections of Kinds Most Profitably Grown for Market
The pleasure with which I have, for several years, pursued the labor of collecting and arranging the matter of this Book, melts away, as I approach the tribunal which is to pronounce upon the result of that labor. The Public which an author fears most is, after all, very small - it is those of his own craft, who will easily discover his failure; and it is precisely that small Public whose favor I am most anxious to deserve. Cardinal De Retz once said: "He who is in good repute among his own order, can not easily be overthrown."
It is from intelligent Pomologists that I shall receive censure with the most humility, and praise with the most gratification; and it was in hope of earning the latter that I have begun and completed this work.
There is so little that is really original in any work, that the unguarded and jealous critic, in reviewing some humble author, is in imminent danger of launching his bolt at some great and standard authority. When charged, by a critic of such rank, with imperfections, I shall only be able to answer: "Sir, the best Pomologists have contributed the most perfect results of their investigations to this work; and the insensible plagiarism, by which another's idea is reproduced in my brain, ought not to create prejudice against the idea."
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