XU TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER VII. 



PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF PRUNING. 



PAGES 



Pruning Young Trees at Transplanting — Pruning the Tops 

 — Proper Time for Pruning — Pruning, as Affecting 

 Fruitfulness — Summer Pruning — Giving Desired Form 

 to Trees by Pruning — Pruning Nursery and Young 

 Trees — Pruning Single Shoots — Pruning Young Apple- 

 trees — Pyramids — Pruning Apple Orchards in Bearing 

 — Pruning the Peach — Pruning the Cherry — Pruning 

 the Quince — Pruning the Roots go-iii 



CHAPTER Vni. 



HAND IMPLEMENTS USED BY FRUIT GROWERS. 



Knives and Saws — Fruit Pickers — Reel — Ladders — Syringes 



— Garden Engines — Labels ii2-i2I 



CHAPTER IX. 



THINNING, GATHERING, KEEPING, AND MARKETING. 



Thinning— Gathering — How to Pick Apples — Assorting and 

 Packing for Market — Packing Grapes for Market — Pack- 

 ing Strawberries and Other Small Fruits — Keeping 

 Fruit — Keeping Grapes 122-139 



CHAPTER X. 



FRUITS TO SUPPLY A FAMILY. 



Plan of a Fruit Garden — How to Obtain Fruit Quickly on 



New Places 140-146 



CHAPTER XL 



MANAGEMENT OF NURSERIES. 



Soils — Laying Out — Shelter — Seeds and Stocks — Planting 

 Seeds — Cultivation — Budding and Grafting — Digging 

 or Lifting the Trees— Packing for Transportation, . 147-159 



CHAPTER XII. * 



DESTRUCTIVE INSECTS. 



How Insects Eat — Woolly Aphis — Round-headed Apple-tree 

 Borer — Flat-headed Apple-tree Borer — Oyster-shell 



