PREFACE BY THE EDITOR vil 



because all the important types, excepting the cur- 

 rant, are evolutions from the species of our own 

 woods. Since the enterprise is so new, the reader 

 must not expect the advice which is given for the 

 management of the bush -fruit plantation to be as 

 permanent and final as that which might be given 

 for apples or pears. 



It only remains to say that this book is an 

 extension of a thesis presented to the . Cornell Uni- 

 versity for the degree of Master of Science in Agri- 

 culture, and to add that the author was a bush- 

 fruit grower before he was a university student and 

 a teacher. 



L. H. BAILEY. 



CORNELL UNIVERSITY, ITHACA, N. Y., 

 Sept. 30. 1898, 



