20 CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER VII. 



SELECTION OF VARIETIES. 



Evils of indiscriminate selection — Fruits suitable for the amateur, for 

 family use, for the market — Catalogue of the different varieties 

 adapted to the different sections of the country — The best six, 

 twelve, twenty, or one hundred sorts, for each state . . 201 



CHAPTER VIII. 



SELECTION, AKRANGEMENT, AND TRANSPLANTATION. 



Section I. Selection of the tree: The apple — Koot-grafted trees — 

 Height of the tree no criterion of its value — Where they should 

 limb — The peach — The vine — The currant and gooseberry — 

 The strawberry, raspberry, and blackberry. Section II. Arrange- 

 ment : Intensive planting — A garden of one square rod — A garden 

 of sixteen square rods — Apple orchards — Square planting for the 

 pear — Quincunx — Distances, and number of trees upon an acre. 

 Section III. The transplantation : Season of — Conditions most 

 favorable to — Depth of — The dwarf pear — Manner of operation 

 — The movement of large trees by machinery . . . 271 



