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Old-Fashioned Garden of Fruits, 

 Flowers and Vegetables 48 



Orchard: A Delightful Place. . . 14 



Peach, 158; Never "Thumb" a 

 Peach, 159; Low-Headed 

 Trees, 1 60 ; Early Crawford . . 163 



Pear: A Liberal Setting of Fruit. 165 



Planting Plans: A Beautiful 

 Utility Garden, 22; A "Utility 

 plus Beauty" Basis of Planting 29 



Plantation, Laying Out the: 

 Working Soil Among the 

 Roots, 31; Double Deck Tree 

 with Branches Too Close, 32; 

 Main Branches Rather Close, 

 but Secondary Ones Better 

 Placed, 33; Unit of Intensively 

 Set Fruit Plantation, 34; 

 Trouble Ahead! Three Y- 

 Crotches Starting from One 

 Point, 35; Strong Crotches and 

 Sturdy Branches, 36; Folly of 

 Allowing Several Branches to 

 Start Together, 36; When 

 Trees Come from the Nursery, 

 37; A Windbreak Prevents 

 Distortion, 38; Hardware 

 Cloth the Surest Protection 

 Against Rabbits and Mice, 

 38; Long Trunks are Unde- 

 sirable, 39; A Label Wire 

 Damages the Tree, 39; Walks 

 Bordered with Herbs and 

 Currants or -Grape Trellises 

 and Hedges, 40; Mending Y'- 

 Crotches Wrong Way, 46; 

 Right Way, 209; Showing 

 How Decay Works in Y- 

 Crotches 92 



Pomegranate, 176; Best Way to 

 Open 177 



Pruning: A Stub is a Menace to 

 the Life of the Tree, 57; Weil- 

 Made Cuts, 58; Wrong Way 

 to Cut a Branch, 59; Well- 

 Healed Pruning Wound, 60; 

 Right and Wrong Ways to Cut 

 Twigs, 61; Right Place to Cut 

 Limb, 61; A Doomed Tree, 

 62; Pear Fruit Spurs, 62; Sweet 

 Cherry Blossoms, 63; Cluster 

 Buds of Apple, 63; Plum Blos- 

 soms Partly on Spurs, 64; 



Sour Cherry Bloom, 64; Peach 

 Blossoms, 65; Quince Flowers, 

 65; Pruning Knives, 68; Right 

 and Wrong Ways to Hold 

 Pruning Shears, 69; Various 

 Styles of Pruning Saws ... 19, 70 



Quack Grass: Enemy of Currant 

 and Gooseberry Bushes 130 



Quince: No Homely Garden 

 Complete without a Bush. . . 178 



Raspberries: "Please Pass Sugar 

 and Cream," 180; Black B asp- 

 berries Wonderfully Prolific, 

 180; Red Raspberries Deter- 

 mined to "Sucker," 181^ Well- 

 Rooted Black Raspberry 

 "Tip," 181; Red Raspberries 

 Before and After Spring Prun- 

 ing and Thinning of Suckers, 

 182; Black Raspberries Before 

 and After Spring Pruning and 

 Thinning, 183; Spring Pruning 

 Raspberry Canes 184 



Short Trunks and Wide-Spread- 

 ing Branches Yield Finer and 

 Better Colored Fruit 49 



Storage of Fruit: Entrance to 

 Outside Storage Cellar, 93; 

 Plan of Storage Room in Cor- 

 ner of a Basement, 94 ; Plan of 

 Storage Quarters in House 

 Cellar, 95; Ventilation of 

 Storage Room in Basement, 

 96; A Southern Storage House, 

 97; Plan of Simple Concrete 

 Storkge Cellar, 98; A Side Hill 

 Fruit Storage House, 99; Sec- 

 tion of an Outdoor Storage 

 Cellar, 100; Section of Con- 

 crete Storage Cellar 101 



Strawberry: Dr. Burrill, 188; 

 Male and Female Blossoms, 

 189; A Prolific Strawberry 

 Plant, 189; Good Promise of 

 Luscious Strawberries, 190;^_ 

 Setting a Runner Plant in . 

 Flowerpot, 191; Potted Plant, 

 192; Potted Runner, 193; 

 Spreading the Winter Mulch, 

 194; The Six-Box Carrier 

 Basket 195 



Young Trees, Keep the Ground 

 Bare Around .56 



