THE AMERICAN 



FRUIT CULTURIST 



CONTAINING 



PRACTICAL DIRECTIONS FOR THE PROPAGATION 



AND CULTURE OF ALL FRUITS ADAPTED 



TO THE UNITED STATES 



BY 



JOHN J. THOMAS 



FIRST PRESIDENT OF TUB FRUIT GROWERS' SOCIETY OF WESTERN NEW YORK 

 HONORARY MEMBER OF MASSACHUSETTS HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY ; OF PENN- 

 SYLVANIA FRUIT GROWERS' SOCIETY ; WORCESTER HORTICULTURAL So- 

 CIETY; ASSISTANT EDITOR "COUNTRY GENTLEMAN;" AND FOR 

 THIRTY YEARS A PRACTICAL NURSERYMAN. 



Gwentgfir0t Edition, "Revised and Enlarged 



WILLIAM H. S. WOOD 



LIFK MEMBER AMERICAN POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY, MEMBER NEW YORK ACADEMY 

 SCIENCES, INCORPORATOR NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN, FELLOW AMERICAN 

 GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY ; MEMBER HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY OF NEW 

 YORK; OP BEDFORD FAKMKKS" CLUB, ETC., ETC. 



ILLUSTRATED WITH OVER EIGHT HUNDRED 

 ACCURATE FIGURES 



NEW YORK 



ORANGE JUDO COMPANY 

 1920 



