CONTENTS. 



Chapter VI. 



Varieties of the Peach for the Delawaie and Chesapeake Peninsula. 

 When, where, and what varieties to plant. Lists for orchards in different parts 

 of the Peninsula, and for different purposes. Table of ripening. Table of 

 relative value of varieties. 



Chapter VII. 



Gathering the Peach crop. The Delaware Fruit Exchange. Marketing 

 the Peach crop. 



Chapter VIII. 



Canning the Peach. Conserving the Peach. Peach Leather. Preserves. 

 Peach Brandy, Evaporating the Peach. Relative value of different varieties 

 for evaporating. Sun-dried Peaches. Plans for Peach Orchards. 



Chapter IX. 



Fifteen questions to Peninsula Peach -growers, and answers thereto, from 

 between twenty and thirty growers. Shipping Peaches to Europe. 



Chapter X. 



The Pear. Introduction. Natural history of the Pear. Development of 

 the Pear tree, starting from the seed; its anatomy, physiology, etc. Standards. 

 Dwarfs. Hybrids. History of Peninsula Pear-growing. Pear-gi-owing as a 

 business. 



Chapter XL 



Propagation of the Pear. The nursery. Budding and grafting the Pear. 



Chapter XII. 



Varieties of the Pear grown on the Peniusula. Standards. Dwarfs. 

 Hybrids. The shapes of Pears. Individual descriptions of the different 

 varieties of Pears, 



