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Plate XXX. — Georgia 6-basket carriers. Twenty-pound 



boxes. (Hort. and Pom. files) 374 



Plate XXXI . — Loading in the car. Bushel baskets properly 

 stacked. Georgia carriers braced to prevent movement of 

 packages in transit. (Hort. and Pom. files) .... 386 



Plate XXXII. — Peach packages. Flats properly stacked in 



the car. Climax baskets. (Hort. and Pom. files) . . 398 



FIGURES 



1. Details of budding. (Adapted from the Fruit-Grower) . 67 



2. A "bud-stick" showing manner of removing buds . . 58 



3. Different grades of nursery stock. (Adapted from Farmers' 



Bulletin 631) 68 



4. Peach trees heeled in 75 



5. The top of a well-grown one-year peach tree as it came from 



the nursery. (Drawn from photo N. Car. Dept. of Agri. 

 BuU. 227) 89 



6. The tree shown in figure 5 after the branches which are to 



form the permanent top have been selected and the others 

 cut away. (Drawn from photo N. Car. Dept. of Agri. 

 Bull. 227) 90 



7. The tree in figure 6 with the branches cut back to stubs. 



(Drawn from photo N. Car. Dept. of Agri. Bull. 227) . 91 



8. A view looking directly downward on the top of the tree in 



figure 7. (Adapted from photo N. Car. Dept. of Agri. 

 Bull. 227) 91 



9. A leveler used for filling irrigation furrows and pulverizing 



the soil. (Farmers' Bulletin 631) 109 



10. A peach tree in July of its first season's growth in a southern 



orchard 182 



