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Chapter XVIII — Picking, Grading and Packing ... ... ... 68 



XIX.— A Diary of a Fruit Farmer ... ... ... ... 72 



XX. — Spraying and Spraying Machinery, hy G. Fo.r inUon ... 76 



XXI. — Spraying with Lime Sulphur, //z/ ^r^A?</- i/Mm ... ... 81 



XXTI — Care of Implements ... ... ... ■-• 83 



XXIII. — Spraying Apple Plantations with Large Plant, hy C. Murdoch 85 



XXIV.— The Nature and Uses of Manures, hy JV. S. Gray, B.Sc. ... 89 



XXV —Soils in Relation to Plant Food and Growth ... ... 91 



XXVI.— The Manuring of Fruit Trees and Bushes, hy Bernard 



Dyer, D.Sc. ... ... ... ... ... 95 



XXVII. — Pruning and Pruning Instruments ... ... ... 96 



XXVIIL— Fruit Trees and the Soil, hy A. R. Ilorivood, F.L.S. ' ... 99 



XXIX.— Birds in the Orchard, hy Frederic Smith ... ... ... 103 



XXX.— Wild Birds in Relation to Fruit Growing, hy JValter E. 



Collinge, D.Sc, etc. ... ... ... ... 107 



XXXI. — Some Comparisons of English and Australian Fruit Growing, 



hy P. Val Kerr ... ... ... ... HO 



XXXII. — A History of Fruit Growing in Canada ... ■• H^ 



XXXIIL— Some Fungoid Diseases of Fruit Trees, hy IL IVonnald, D.Sc. 116 



XXXIV.— The Commoner Fruit Pests, hy G. A. W. Duffield, F.E.S ... 125 



XXXV.^ — Life History of some well-known Apples ... ... 135 



XXXVI. — The History of some well-known Pears ... ... 139 



XXXVII— Histories of the Plums we Grow ... ... ... 1^2 



XXXVIII. — Notes on the Origin of some Cherries ... ... ... 145 



XXXIX. — Experimental Work on the Self-Sterility of the Apple, hy 



fF. H. Alderman ... ... ... ... 148 



XL. — Results of the Study of the Pollination of the Apple ... 150 



XLI. — Pears and Apples Grown as Cordons ... ... ... 152 



XLII. — The Raising of New Varieties oF Fruit Trees and Experi- 

 ments in Double Grafting, by JFni Ciump, V.M.H. ... 154 



XLIII — Pollination, Fertilisation and Setting of Fruit ... 156 



XLIV.— Black Currant Cuttings ... .. .. ... 161 



