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Chapter XVIII. — Picking, Grading and Packing 



XIX. — A Diary of a Fruit Farmer ... 



XX. — Spraying and Spraying Machinery, hy G. Fox IVihon 



XXI. — Spraying with Lime Sulphur, hy Arthur Miskin ... 



XXII — Care of Implements 



XXIII. — Spraying Apple Plantations with Large Plant, hy C. Murdoch 85 



XXIV.— The Nature and Uses of Manures, hy JV. S. Oray, B.Sc. ... 89 



XXV — Soils in Relation to Plant Food and Growth ... ... 91 



XXVI.— The Manuring of Fruit Trees and Bushes, hy Bernard 



Dyer, D.Sc. ... ... ... ... ... 95 



XXVII. — Pruning and Pruning Instruments ... ... ... 96 



XXVIIL— Fruit Trees and the Soil, hy A. R. Hanoood, F.L.S. ... 99 



XXIX. — 'BiTd% in the OrchsLTd, hy Fredei-ic Smith .. . ... ... 103 



XXX. — Wild Birds in Relation to Fruit Growing, hy Walter E. 



Collinge, D.Sc, etc. ... ... ... ... 107 



XXXI. — Some Comparisons of English and Australian Fruit Growing, 



hy P. ValKerr ... ... ... ... 110 



XXXII. — A History of Fruit Growing in Canada ... ... 114 



XXXIII. — Some Fungoid Diseases of Fruit Trees, hy II. JFwmald, D.Sc. 116 



XXXIV.— The Commoner Fruit Pests, hy G. A. IF. Duffield, F.E.S. ... 125 



XXXV. — Life History of some well-known Apples ... ... 135 



XXXVI. — The History of some well-known Pears ... ... 139 



XXXVII —Histories of the Plums we Grow ... ... ... 1^2 



XXXVIII. — Notes on the Origin of some Cherries ... ... ... 145 



XXXIX. — Experimental Work on the Self-Sterility of the Apple, hy 



JV. H. Jldei-man ... ... ... ... 148 



XL. — Results of the Study of the Pollination of the Apple ... 150 



XLI. — Pears and Apples Grown as Cordons ... ... ... 152 



XLII. — The Raising of New Varieties of Fruit Trees and Experi- 

 ments in Double Grafting, i«/ /^/-';)t Ciiiiiip, F.M.H. ... 154 



XLIII — Pollination, Fertilisation and Setting of Fruit ... 156 



XLIV. — Black Currant Cuttings ... ... 161 



