PREFACE 



IN preparing this little book three important factors 

 were kept in mind. First, only to include those practices 

 of propagation which are in general use and which are 

 accepted by the orchardist and the commercial nursery 

 man as being the most important. Second, to furnish in 

 a condensed form such information on propagation as will 

 enable the general fruit grower to follow out the practices. 

 It is assumed that the average fruit grower has a general 

 knowledge of the various methods of propagation, hence 

 the many confusing details are here omitted. 



Third, an attempt is made to follow rather closely the 

 methods employed by the arger commercial nurseries and 

 to contrast these with the similar operations of the orchard- 

 ists. The fruit grower who buys his nursery stock desires 

 to know something of the methods whereby it is produced. 

 The student of Horticulture needs a general knowledge of 

 nurseiy work and how to apply it to either commercial or 

 home use. It is hoped that the work is sufficiently clear 

 that any interested fruit grower can successfully produce 

 his own trees, thereby creating a desire to know more and 

 to do greater things. 



To all those who have contributed to the work in any 

 way, my thanks are due. On the following page is printed 

 a list of those I am especially indebted to. 



B. S. BROWN. 

 ORONO, MAINE. 

 June, 1916. 



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