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A Cherry Orchard in Spring . . Frontispiece 



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 Grass Paths and Spring Flowers in the 



Orchard ...... i 



Ribston Pippin Apple Tree, at Ribston Park 6 



Dwarf Apple Trees, Beauty of Kent 7 



Cordon Apple Trees, in nursery rows . . 10 

 Cordon Apple Trees, in a Herefordshire 



nursery .... .11 



Dwarf Apple Trees, in flower ... 12 

 Apple, Lane's Prince Albert, as a bush 



tree ... ... 13 



Cordon Espalier Apple Trees, by garden path 18 

 Apple Walk, in the kitchen garden at Over- 

 strand ...... 19 



The Cut-leaved Bramble at Slinfield Manor . 30 



The Loganberry .... 31 



The Dessert Cherry, as a wall tree . 36 



Fan-trained IVIorello Cherty Tree, on wall . 37 

 Standai'd Cherry Tree, five years old (un- 



pruned) 38 



Pot Cherry Trees, in bloom (under glass) 39 



Cherry Trees, in pots of six inches diameter . 40 



Cherry, Governor Wood, as a pot tree . 41 



A Branch of White Heart Cherries . . 42 



Cherry Black Tartarian, on a wall under glass 43 



Morello Cherry Tree, on north v/all . 44 

 Bush Cherry Trees, in the Royal Gardens, 



Windsor 45 



The Best Way to protect Bush Fruits 50 



Fig, Brown Turkey .... 51 



A Grove of Fig Trees, near Worthing . 52 



Avenue of Fig Trees, in a Worthing garden . 53 



Plum and Apple Trees, in pots . . 60 



Specimen Peach Tree, in pot . 61 



Rivers' Early Cherry, as a pot tree . . 62 



Peach, Thomas Rivers 63 



Nectarine, Victoria ... .66 



Pot Peach Tree, Dr. Hogg, in flower . 67 



A typical Pot Pear Tree ... 68 



A Standard Gooseberry . , , . jy 



Fruiting Branches of the Medlar . . 78 



Melon Culture, in narrow borders . . 80 



An Effective Method of securing Melon Fruits 81 



A typical Netted Melon .... 86 



Cob Nut in Summer . . 90 



Cob Nut in Winter . . 91 



An Old Nut Walk 92 



Peach Trees, on back wall of glasshouse . 96 

 Daffodils and Peach Trees, in a market 



nursery .... 

 How to Cover a Wall quickly 

 Model Fan-trained Peach Tree 



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Peach, Royal George, on a south wall . 

 Standard Fan-trained Peach Tree, on south 



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Nectarine, Lord Napier, packed for markfet 

 Fan-trained Pear Tree, in blossom 

 Fan-trained Pear Tree, with central stem 

 Horizontally-trained Wall Pear Tree . 

 Pear Tree, on arched trellis, Royal Gardens, 



Windsor ...... 



A Veteran Horizontally-trained Pear Tree 



Double Cordon Pear Trees, on wall 



Fruit Spurs of an Old Espalier Pear Tree 



Single Oblique Cordon Pear Trees 



Pear, Marguerite Marillat, as a cordon on a 



west wall 



A Pyramid Pear Tree, Charles Ernest . 



Pyramid Pear Tree, in flower 



Triple Upright Cordon Pear Tree 



Pear, Beurr6 Ranee .... 



Pear Tree, upright form of training for pillar 



An Old Espalier Pear Tree, Glou Morceau, 



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Typical Pyramid Pear Trees 

 Pear, Josephine de Malines, grafted upon 



Beun-6 d'Amanlis ..... 

 Pear, William's Bon Chretien 

 A House of the Queen Pineapple . 



BuUace, The Langley 



Fan-trained Plum Trees, on wall . 

 Strawberry Leader, in a Middlesex garden 

 Strawberry Culture, in barrel 

 Strawberry Culture, in pots for market . 

 How to Protect Strawberries from Birds 

 Tomato Cultm"e, in pots in a market nursery 

 Tomato Culture, in beds in a market nursery 

 The Navel Orange 



The Custard Apple . . . . 



A Bunch of Mangoes . 

 The Grape Fruit .... 

 The Edible Passion Flower, in fruit 

 The Pomegranate . 

 The Kelsey Plum .... 

 The Otaheite Orange 

 The Old Vine at Hampton Court . 

 Stem of the Hampton Court Vine 

 The Great Vine at Cumberland Lodge . 

 Market Vinery filled with Alicante Grapes . 

 A Remarkable Foster's Seedling Vine at 

 Frogmore . . ... 



Grape, Reine Olga 



How the Vine is Trained in a Maiicet Nursery. 

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