io CONTENTS 



CHAPTER PAGE 



XX. THE NEW GARDENER . . . . 244 



XXI. THE NEW TREE BEAUTY . . . 256 



XXII. THE NEW SHRUB BEAUTY . . . 276 



PART II. THE NEW FRUIT-GROWING 



I. THE MODERN BEAR-QUICK APPLE . . 295 



II. THE MANAGEMENT OF THE BEAR-QUICK APPLE . 306 



III. THE NEW SCIENCE OF FRUIT-SPRAYING . . 322 



IV. MODERN INQUIRY INTO THE CROSS-FERTILIZATION 



OF FRUIT, WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO BEES 341 



V. MODERN PEARS AND PEAR-GROWING . . . 345 



VI. THE NEW BERRIES . . ... 352 



PART III. THE NEW VEGETABLE-GROWING 



I. A NEW IDEAL FOR TABLE VEGETABLES . . 361 



II. AN ECONOMICAL SUPPLY OF FRESH VEGETABLES . 368 



III. FRENCH GARDENING . . ... 379 



IV. ELECTRICAL EXPERIMENTS IN FORCING VEGETABLES 



AND FRUIT . . ... 390 



INDEX . . . . ... 398 



