CONTENTS. 



Chapter I. 

 Soil, Location and Windbreaks 9 



Chapter II. 

 Setting the Trees. — Distances 13 



Chapter III. 

 When to Plant 16 



Chapter IV. 

 Selecting Varieties of Fruit 18 



Chapter V. 

 Cheap Fruit Trees 22 



Chapter VI. 

 How to Plow an Orchard. — Orchard Tillage 24 



Chapter VII. 

 Manures for the Orchard _ 28 



Chapter VIII. 

 Sod in the Orchard 31 



Chapter IX. » 

 General Notes on Pruning. — Forms of Trees. 33 



Chapter X. 

 High or Low Heads for Apple Trees _ 37 



Chapter XI. 

 Training and Repairing Orchard Trees. — Scraping. 39 



Chapter XII. 

 General Notes on Grafting 45 



Chapter XIII. 

 Top-Grafting Old Apple Trees 51 



Chapter XIV. 

 Longevity of Apple Trees - .54 



Chapter XV. 

 Picking Fruit.— When to Pick 55 



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