APPENDIX 



ELLIOTT'S HAND BOOK FOR FRUIT gROWERS, 



CONTAINING SOME DIRECTIONS AND TABLES FOR PLANT- 

 ING TREES ALSO FULL DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW 

 AND WELL-TESTED VARIETIES 

 .OF FRUITS. 



PUBLISHER'S CARD. 



In order to keep this work well up with the modern 

 improvements in Horticulture, it is deemed important 

 to give its readers full descriptions of such new Apples, 

 Pears, Peaches, Plums, Quinces, Cherries, Currants, 

 Strawberries, Blackberries, Raspberries, Grapes, etc., as 

 have been thoroughly tested and found desirable. Most 

 fruit growers feel a pride in cultivating new varieties, and 

 in being able to show on their own tables new and rare 

 fruits. In the lists of fruits here described, they will 

 find nothing that has not been tested and found desira- 

 ble for large or small planters for the home garden, as 

 well as for the orchard and nothing but what can be 

 obtained readily from our best nurserymen or from their 

 agents. 



PL.ANT YOUJVG TREES. 



We cannot too strongly recommend our readers to 

 procure young trees, especially for orchard planting. 

 They cost less, they can be taken up with more perfect 



