24 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 



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Onions Under Skinner System of Irrigation ". 395 



S( 'me Commercial Types of Sweet Potatoes 399 



Tomatoes Supported by Stakes 400 



A Farm Garden Laid Out for Convenience in Working 405 



Transplanting Board and Dibble in Use 406 



Planting the Seedlings 406 



Sowing Seed Package or Envelope 409 



Wheel Cultivator and Attachments. . 410 



A Double Sash Steam-heated Hotbed 414 



A Greenhouse Suitable for Forcing Plants 415 



A Fine Bed of Mushrooms Grown from Spawn of Pure-culture Origin.. 418 



Turning the Compost 419 



A Typical Range of Mushroom Houses 420 



Sifting the Casing Dirt 420 



Types of Fancy' Packages 421 



Good Nursery Stock 430 



Before and After Pruning 433 



Picking Apples in the Rogue River Valley, Oregon 435 



Chesapeake Strawberry (Color Plate) 438 



A Spray of Good Strawberries 439 



Planting a Strawberry Runner 440 



American Quart Boxes of Well-Graded Strawberries 443 



Land that will Produce Good Farm Crops will Produce Bush Fruits ... 445 



A Young Planting Cane of Raspberry, Showing Fibrous Roots 446 



Currants Should Find a Place in Every- Home Garden 451 



Well-set Branch of Gooseberries 454 



Well Located Apple Orchard 457 



A Properly Pruned Young Apple Tree 461 



Apple Orchard Favored by- Type of Soil 462 



Tools for Use in Removing Roundheaded Apple Tree Borer from Burrows 463 



A Power Sprayer Adapted to Large Trees 464 



A Good Cluster of Apples, but with Some Scab Showing 465 



Picking and Packing Apples 466 



Pear Tree in Blossom 468 



Good Specimens of Winter Nelis 469 



A Typical Peach Orchard Site 473 



Typical Sweet Cherries 474 



Block of Young Peach Treks with Strawberries as ax Inter-crop 476 



Peach Tree with Well-Formed Framework Heavily Cut Back for Renewal 



Purposes 477 



Peach Twig, Showing Arrangement of Leaf and Blossom Buds 478 



A Properly- Pruned Peach Tree 479 



Pruning Tools 480 



Picking Peaches 482 



Ever-bearing Orange Tree 485 



Good < >range Seedlings 487 



Shield Budding with Angular Wood 48S 



Shield or Eye Budding 489 



Shield or Eye Buds 490 



