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CONTENTS. 



PREFACE ix 



INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER.. ad 



CHAPTER I. 



VARIETIES 13 



A complete list of kinds 14 



Consult the fruit merchant. 15 



Pennsylvania Horticultural Society 16 



CHAPTER II. 



ASPECT 17 



Shelter an orchard 18 



A hedge of pears 19 



CHAPTER IIL 



PREPARATION OP THE SOIL 20 



Lifting sub-soil plow 21 



Laying tiles 22 



Basement story 23 



Alternate freezing and thawing 24 



Trees over-bearing 25 



CHAPTER IV. 



DISTANCE APART IN PLANTING 26 



Distance between rows 27 



Currants may be planted 28 



Cropping between the rows 29 



Distance table 30 



CHAPTER V. 



DWARFS AND STANDARDS. SELECTING TREES 31 



One-year-old stock 32 



Tree peddlers 33 



" High-worked " trees 34 



One thousand Bartletts 35 



Unnatural condition 36 



The bark louse 37 



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