RCEDING'S FRUIT GROWERS' GUIDE 



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79 

 Pomegranate ' ~ 



Situation and Soils '* 



Distances Apart and Pruning 72 



Gathering 



Meritorious Varieties ' a 



Prune 



Stocks ~y 



Pruning ^| 



Gathering and Drying 99 



Commercial Varieties for Drying . 



Commercial Varieties for Shipping '99 



Period of Ripening ^2 



Quince 



29 



Time of Ripening 



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Raisins', Making 



Naturals 



Oil Bleached 



Sulphur Bleached 



New Method of Handling Raisin Grapes 



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Raspberry 



Popular Varieties of Raspberries 



Rhubarb . . 97 



Small Fruits 



Preparing the Ground 



Strawberries '. 



Standard Varieties 93 



Vegetable and Esculent Roots 95 



The Standard Varieties 95 



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Walnut 35 



How to Plant 



Pruning : 36 



Special Features 



Gathering and Curing 37 



Commercial Varieties 39 



Varieties Worthy of Trial 39 



Timber Trees . . 39 



LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 



Almond Tree, Three-year-old .... . . . 30 



Apple Tree, with Well-balanced Head 9 



With Leaders and Laterals Shortened In 9 



Apricot Tree, Showing Successful Pruning . 



One-year-old 23 



Two-year-old 23 



Six-year-old 23 



Artichoke, Globe 96 



Jerusalem 97 



Avocado Tree, Fine Type of 74 



Hard-shelled Avocado 74 



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Bananas, on Property of Wm. Plotts, near Whittier, 



Los Angeles County 78 



Blackberry, Himalaya 92 



Mammoth 95 



Berry Patch for the Home : Loganberries, Cuthbert 



Raspberries and Himalaya Berries 93 



Calimyrna Fig Orchard, near Fresno 38 



Washing and Cleaning Dried Calimyrna Figs. . . 47 



Caprifig : 



Stringing Capris on Raffia Fibre 42 



Branch of Roeding's No. 3 40 



Roeding's Caprifig No. 3, Showing Magnificent 



Crop of Mamme or Winter Figs 44 



Carob Tree 80 



Cherimoyer Tree 76 



Cherry Tree, Two-year-old 15 



Four-year-old 16 



Six-year-old 16 



With Framework Branches Unchecked 17 



Magnificent Cherry Orchard 17 



Chestnuts Grown on the Pacific Coast 31 



The Marron Combale, in Orchard of California 



Nursery Company 32 



Citron of Commerce Loaded with Fruit 68 



Citrus Trees. Method of Protecting from Frost ... 60 



Check Method of Irrigating 61 



Furrow Method of Irrigating 61 



Model Citrus Tree 62 



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Fig Tree, Just from Nursery 39 



Branch of Roeding's No. 3 Caprifig. . 40 



Calimyrna Fig 41 



Stringing the Capris on Raffia Fibre 



Fig Wasp (Blastophasga grossorum) 43 



Wire Basket which is Suspended in the Cali- 

 myrna Fig Trees 43 



Roeding's Capri No. 3, Showing Magnificent 



Crop of Mamme or Winter Figs 44 



One-year-old Orchard-grown Fig Tree 45 



Two-year-old Fig Tree, with Laterals Cut Back 45 

 Three-year-old Fig Tree, Showing Current Year's 



Growth 46 



Same Tree Cut Back and Thinned 



Washing and Cleaning Dried Calimyrna Figs. . . 47 



Fig Trees Just After Pruning 48 



Old Fig Tree Cut Back to Develop a New Head. 49 



Fig Wasp (Blastophaga grossorum) 43 



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Globe Artichoke 96 



Grapevine, Pruned and Unpruned 80 



Three-year-old Thompson Seedless 81 



Four-year-old Emperors, Properly Pruned 82 



One-year-old Muscat 83 



Two-year-old Muscat 83 



Three-year-old Muscat, Well Trained 83 



Two-year-old Muscat Under Old Method 84 



Three-year-old Muscat with Head Started from 



Central Point . . 84 



