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[Scott Smith <scott@cs.jhu.edu>]

Try this one:

http://www.archive.org/details/fruittreesfruits00downrich

I find the "TXT" link on the side (text format, no pictures) is handy  
because you can search through it easily with a search tool. For  
example search on "best." (with period at end but no quotes) and you  
will quickly find every fruit Downing rated very good to best or  
best.  It occasionally has an incorrectly recognized character but is  
much easier on your computer.   "PDF" is the whole thing, all 149  
megabytes!

Scott

> I put "A.J. Downing, Fruits and Fruit Trees of America" into Google  
> and
> got a site where you can download a PDF copy of the whole book.
> The URL is massive and TinyUrl won't accept it.
> -Lon Rombough