CONTENTS. 



PART I. 

 GENERAL DIRECTIONS AND PRACTICES. 



CHAP. I. Introductory Remarks 5 profits and advan- 

 tages of Fruit Culture, 9 



" II. History, Improvement, and Nomenclature, 16 

 " III. Influence of Climate, Culture and other 



Causes, 23 



IV. Best kinds of Stocks, 33 



" V. Production of New Varieties, 36 



VI. Propagation by Budding and Grafting, by , 



Layers and by Cuttings, 42 



VII. Soil, Situation, and Enclosures, 54 



" VIII. Transplanting, 60 



" IX. Cultivation of the ground, , 68 



" X. Pruning old Trees, and budding and graft- 

 ing new tops, 74 



" XI. Causes of Fruitfulness, 80 



XII. Implements, 85 



PART II. 

 ON THE DIFFERENT KINDS OF FRUITS. 



CHAP. I. TheApple, 93 



II. ThePear, Ill 



III. The Quince, 118 



IV. The Peach and Nectarine, , ........ 123 



