CONTENTS. 



SUBJECTS. 

 PETJIT GAEDEK. 



The Peopagatioh op Fettit Trees — page 



Grafting ......^^ 5 



How to Cleft Graft 6 



How to Whip Graft 9 



How to make Grafting Wax ..; 7 



To prepare Waxed Clotli H 



To Select Scions 11 



Budding and when to Bud 12 



How to Select Buds 14 



When to Eemove the Ligature and Head Back the Stock 16 



The Pkitning of Fkuit Trees — 



When to Prune and why 18 



Where to Prune 20 



Pruning to Produce Fruit 21 



Teansplanting Tebes — 



The best Time to Transplant 23 



Preparing the Ground 23 



How to Plant 25 



The best Trees for Transplanting 27 



Mulching — 



Vfhat is Meant by Mulching 26 



How to Mulch, and why it is done 26 



Tbeatmbnt of Young Okohards — 



To Protect from Mice 30 



To Keep the Bark Clean and Healthy 31 



Location of Op.ohaed — 



Soil and Aspect 31 



Hills and Valleys 32 



Injueious Insects, and how to get eid of them — 



The Tent Caterpillar 35 



The Two-striped Borer 38 



The Buprestis Apple Tree Borer 40 



The Codling Worm 42 



The Plum Curcnlio 45- 



