LiPPiNCOTT's Farm Manuals 



EDITED BY K. C. DAVIS, Ph.D. (Cornell) 



PRODUCTIVE 

 ORCHARDING 



MODERN METHODS OF GROWING 

 AND MARKETING FRUIT 



BY 



FRED C. SEARS, M.S. 



(Kansas State Agricultural College) 



PROFESSOR OF POMOLOGY, MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURAL COLLEGK 



157 ILLUSTRATIONS IN TEXT 



"If vain our toil, 

 We ought to blame the culture, not the soil." 



Pope — Essay on Man 



SECOND EDITION, REVISED 



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