INTRODUCTION. 



IMPORTANCE OP ORCHARD PRODUCTS GOVERNMENT STATISTICS 

 GREAT VALUE OF ORCHARD AND GARDEN PRODUCTS DELIGHTS 

 OP FRUIT CULTURE TEMPERATE REGIONS THE PROPER FIELD FOR 

 FRUIT CULTURE, AS FOR MENTAL DEVELOPMENT PLANTS OF CUL- 

 TURE, PLANTS OF NATURE NOMADIC CONDITION UNFAVORABLE 

 FOR TERRA-CULTURE NECESSITIES OF AN INCREASING POPULA- 

 TION A SPUR HIGH CIVILIZATION DEMANDS HIGH CULTURE 

 HORTICULTURE A FINE ART, THE POETRY OF THE FARMER'S LIFE 

 MORAL INFLUENCES OF FRUIT-CULTURE SINGULAR LEGISLATION 

 RESPECTING PROPERTY IN FRUIT INFLUENCE UPON HEALTH 



APPLES IN BREAD-MAKING; AS FOOD FOR STOCK SOURCES AND 

 ROUTES OF INTRODUCTION AGENCY OF NURSERYMEN INDIAN 

 ORCHARDS FRENCH SETTLERS JOHNNY APPLE-SEED VARIETIES 

 OF FRUITS, LIKE MAN, FOLLOW PARALLELS OF LATITUDE LOCAL 

 VARIETIES OF MERIT TO BE CHERISHED OHIO PURCHASE SILAS 

 WHARTON THE PUTNAM LIST. 



FEW persons have any idea of the great value and im- 

 portance of the products of our orchards and fruit-gardens. 

 These are generally considered the small things of agri- 

 culture, and are overlooked by all but the statist, whose 

 business it is to deal with these minutiae, to hunt them up, 

 to collocate them, and when he combines these various de- 

 tails and produces the sum total, we are all astonished at 

 the result. 

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