Foreword to Volume IV 



We begin, now, to take up with greater detail, 

 practical combinations of method^ — particularly as 

 applied toward producing new orchard fruits. In 

 this volume Mr. Burbank has covered practically 

 all the simple orchard fruits save the plum and the 

 prime. 



Although the purpose, here as before, is to be as 

 specific as possible, yet the facts are carried 

 through in narrative form, showing, always, how 

 the actual method employed fits into the scheme 

 of work as outlined in Volumes I, II and III. 



From this volume the reader will glean much 

 of practical interest and value from Mr. Burbank's 

 experience with laying out orchards, to making 

 orchards pay, and to the practical management of 

 orchards — with an eye always to the bearing of 

 Mr. Burbank's work upon the improvement of the 

 himian plant 



THE EDITORS. 



