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CHAPTER VII. 



PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF PRUNING. 



PAGES 



Pruning Young Trees at Transplanting Pruning the Tops 

 Proper Time for Pruning Pruning, as Affecting 

 Fruitfulness Summer Pruning Giving Desired Form 

 to Trees by Pruning Pruning Nursery and Young 

 Trees Pruning Single Shoots Pruning Young Apple- 

 trees Pyramids Pruning Apple Orchards in Bearing 

 Pruning the Peach Pruning the Cherry Pruning 

 the Quince Pruning the Roots, 90-111 



CHAPTER VIII. 



HAND IMPLEMENTS USED BY FRUIT GROWERS. 



Knives and Saws Fruit Pickers Reel Ladders Syringes 



Garden Engines Labels 112-121 



CHAPTER IX. 



THINNING, GATHERING, KEEPING, AND MARKETING. 



Thinning Gathering How to Pick Apples Assorting and 

 Packing for Market Packing Grapes for Market Pack- 

 ing Strawberries and Other Small Fruits Keeping 

 Fruit Keeping Grapes 122-139 



CHAPTER X. 



FRUITS TO SUPPLY A FAMILY. 



Plan of a Fruit Garden How to Obtain Fruit Quickly on 



New Places I4O _ I4& 



CHAPTER XI. 



MANAGEMENT OF NURSERIES. 



Soils Laying Out Shelter Seeds and Stocks Planting 

 Seeds-CultivationBudding and Grafting Digging 

 or Lifting the Trees-Packing for Transportation, . 147-159 



CHAPTER XII. 



DESTRUCTIVE INSECTS. 



How Insects Eat- Woolly Aphis- Round-headed Apple-tree 

 Borer Flat-headed Apple-tree Borer Oyster-shell 



