AMERICAN POMOLOGY 



APPLES.; 



X>oct. JOHN 



POMOLOQICAL SOCIETY; VICE-PRESIDENT AMERICAN POMOLOGTOAl 

 SOCIETY. 



393 IIJLVSTRATIONS. 



This volume has about 750 pages, the first 375 of which are de 

 voted to the discussion of the general subjects of propagation, nur- 

 sery culture, selection and planting, cultivation of orchards, care of 

 fruit, insects, and the like ; the remainder is occupied with descrip- 

 tions of apples. With the richness of material at hand, the trouble 

 was to decide what to leave out. It will be found that while the 

 old and standard varieties are not neglected, the new and promising 

 sorts, especially those of the South and West, have prominence. 

 A list of selections for different localities by eminent orchardists is 

 a valuable portion of the volume, while the Analytical Index or 

 Catalogue Raisonne, as the French would say, is the most extended 

 American fruit list ever published, and gives evidence of a tearful 

 amount of labor. 



CONTENTS, 



Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY. 



Chapter II HISTORY OP THE APPLE. 



Chapter III. PROPAGATION. 



Buds and Cuttings Grafting Budding The Nurnery. 

 Chapter IV. DWARFING. 

 Chapter V. DISEASES. 



Chapter VI THE SITE FOR AN ORCHARD. 

 Chapter VII. PREPARATION OF SOIL FOR AN ORCHARD. 

 Chapter VIII. SELECTION AND PLANTING. 

 Chapter IX CULTURE, Etc. 

 Chapter X. PHILOSOPHY OF PRUNING. 

 Chapter XI. THINNING. 



Chapter XII. RIPENING AND PRESERVING FRUITS. 

 Chapter XIII and XIV. INSECTS. 

 Chapter XV. CHARACTERS OF FRUITS AND THEIR 



VALUE TERMS USED. 

 Chapter XVI. CLASSIFICATION. 



Necessity for Basis of Characters Shape Its Res* 



larity Flavor Color Their several Values, etc. De- 



scription of Apples. 



Chapter XVII. FRUIT LISTS CATALOGUE AND INDEX OF 

 FRUITS. 



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