ROEDING'S FRUIT GROWERS' GUIDE 



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Two-year-old Emperor Properly Trained 85 



Eight-year-old Emperor with Spurs Well Dis- 

 tributed 85 



Three-year-old Thompson Seedless Showing 



Pruned and Unpruned Vines 86 



Thompson Seedless with Numerous Stems 87 



Drying Thompson Seedless 88 



Sulphur Houses Used for Bleaching the Thomp- 

 son Seedless 90 



Frame Structure for Drying Raisins 91 



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Himalaya Blackberries 92, 93 



Jerusalem Artichoke 97 



Jujube Tree Grown by U. S. Department of Agri- 

 culture, Chico, California 79 



Fruit Branch of Chinese Jujube 79 



Lemon Tree, Four-year-old Eureka 60 



Transplanted from Nursery to Orchard with 



Branches Shortened In 66 



One-year-old Properly Pruned 66 



Loquat Orchard of C. P. Taft, Section of 77 



Loquats from Same, One of His Improved 



Varieties 77 



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Mammoth Blackberry 95 



Muscat Grapevine, One-year-old 83 



Two-year-old 83 



Three-year-old, Well Trained . 83 



Two-year-old Under Old Method 84 



Three-year-old with Head Started from Central 



Point 48 



Olive Tree, One-year-old 49 



Same, with Branches Sbortened In 49 



Three-year-old Ascolano 50 



Same, with Branches Thinned Out and Properly 



Pruned 51 



Sixty-acre Mission Olive Orchard of Seven-year- 

 old Trees. 52 



Model Olive Plant of Los Angeles Fruit Growers' 



Association 54 



Same, Showing Grinding Up of Olives Before 



Pressing 56 



Bottling Room 56 



Orange, Washington Navel 70 



Orange Orchard, Six-year-old Valencia Late 59 



Orange Tree, One-year-old, Unpruned 63 



Same, Pruned 64 



Three-year-old, Unpruned 65 



Same. Pruned 65 



Orchard near Exeter, Bird's-Eye View of 2 



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Peach Tree, Four-year-old 24 



One-year-old, Nursery-grown 25 



One-year-old, Orchard-grown 25 



Two-year-old, Unpruned 25 



Same, Pruned 25 



Four-year-old, Unpruned 26 



Same, Pruned 26 



Selma Cling Peach 28 



Pear Tree, One-year-old Orchard 11 



Three-year-old Bartlett H 



Five-year-old Bartlett 12 



Eight-year-old Bartlett Pear Orchard 12 



Monarch Pear Trees near Santa Clara 14 



Pear Orchard, Irrigating, by Furrow System. . . 13 



Pecan, Stuart, a Paper-shell Variety 32 



Grafted Paper-shell Variety 34 



Persimmon, Hachiya 72 



Four-year-old Hyakume Persimmon Tree 71 



A Well-balanced Persimmon Tree 71 



Pistachio Tree, Twenty-year-old 35 



Planting: 



Square System 5 



Quincunx System 6 



Hexagonal System 6 



Alternate System 7 



Planting Board 7 



Plum Tree, Two-year-old 18 



Three-year-old 18 



Six-year-old 19 



Santa Rosa Plum 19 



Pomegranate Tree 73 



Pomelo, Marsh's Seedless 58 



Budded on Citrus Trifoliata Root, Resulting in 



Unevenness in Size of Trees 69 



Prune Tree, Improved French 20 



Three-year-old French Prune Orchard, 



Unpruned 21 



Three-year-old French Prune Orchard, Pruned. . 21 



Strawberry Beds and Methods of Irrigating Them 94 



Thompson Seedless Grapevine, Three-year-old .... 81 

 Three-year-old, Showing Pruned and Unpruned 



Vines 86 



With Numerous Stems 8.7 



Drying Thompson Seedless : . . . 88 



Sulphur Houses Used for Bleaching 90 



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Walnut Tree, Grafted, Just from Nursery '. . . 36 



Same, Topped and Root Pruned for Planting. . . 36 



With Fine Symmetrical Head 37 



Top-worked 37 



Franquette Walnut 37 



