SOLD TO SUBSCRIBERS ONLY. 



DEDICATED, BY PERMISSION, TO THE WORSHIPFUL COMPANY OF FRUITERERS. 



In Six Btvisions, cloth, gilt edges, at lO.s. Qd. each; or in Three Volumes at 21s. each. 



THE FRUIT GROWER'S GUIDE. 



By JOHN WEIGHT, F.E.H.S. 



WITH COLOURED ILLUSTRATIONS BY MISS MAY RIVERS. 



A PRACTICAL work, contaiinng all the requisite details for the successful cultivation of the various kinds of fruit 

 that are grown in this country, both under glass and in the open air, has become a necessity of the times. 

 The Feuit Grower's Guide will be serviceable to all persons who have an interest in the production of Fruit ; 

 including, amongst others, proprietors of estates, farmers, and gardeners, to whom sound knowledge on the subject is 

 essential ; amateurs of various grades and with differing means ; owners or occupiers of suburban and country gardens 

 large and small ; tradesmen who have land, allotment holders, &c. ; in fact, to all growers of fruit either for home use 

 or commercial purposes. 



The work will be embellished with forty-three Coloured Plates and three Vignettes, in which upwards of one 

 hundred of the choicest and most useful varieties of fruit will be faithfully and artistically portrayed by Miss May 

 Rivers. These will embrace selections of apples, apricots, cherries, currants, grapes, figs, gooseberries, oranges, 

 melons, nuts, nectarines, peaches, pears, plums, raspberries, strawberries, &c. 



The work will further contain about two hundred diagram Illustrations by Mr. Worthington G. Smith and 

 Mr. George Shaylee, representing: (a) The structure of roots, leaves, flowers, and fruit ; (i) The draining of land 

 and formation of borders ; (c) Plans of fruit gardens and orchards ; (d) Methods of raising trees by cuttings, layers, 

 budding, and grafting ; (c) Planting, protecting, and supporting trees ; (/ ) Pruning, summer and winter, root and 

 branch; (r/) Training and shaping trees; (/() Plans of various glass structures, showing approved methods of heating 

 and ventilation ; (i) Fruit rooms and stores ; (j) Thinning, preserving, and packing fruit ; {k) The insect and fungoid 

 enemies of trees and fruit ; and all other essential details for enabling the important subject of fruit culture and 

 distribution to be understood even by the inexperienced. 



Particulars Avill be given on the Soil — its preparation and improvement ; Manures — their uses and application, 

 including surface dressings, liquid manure, and mulching; climatic conditions in respect of frost, dew, light, tempera- 

 tures, ventilating, syringing, &c. ; sites and shelter for gardens and orchards, with instructions for their formation; also 

 the renovation of old gardens and orchards, descriptive particulars of planting, shaping, and training from the maiden to 

 the fruiting tree ; protecting buds, blossom, and fruit, also its thinning, gathering, and storing ; selections of fruits for 

 various soils and districts, with the forcing of all kinds of fruit, so as to maintain an unbroken succession for home 

 use, or for meeting the ever-growing demands of the great centres of population. 



The descriptive routine operations will be founded on experience, based on scientific principles, and therefore will 

 guide safely and to a successful issue all who are favourably circumstanced for growing fruit, and who carry out the 

 instructions intelligently. 



Every care has been taken by the Publishers to make the Fruit Geowee's Guide the most comprehensive aud 

 complete practical Avork on the subject that has hitherto been published. 



CONDITIONS OF PUBLICATION. 



The Work will be completed in Six Divisions, cloth, gilt edges, at 10s. 6d. each ; or in Three Volumes at 21s. each. 

 Each Division will contain One Hundred and Seventy-six pages of Letterpress and about Eight Coloured Illustrations. Each 

 Volume, Three Hundred and Sixty pages and Fifteen Coloured Illustrations. 



The size of the "Work is Deniy"4to. The issue is confined to Subscribers, and suppUed by the Publishers' Agents only. 



LONDON: J. S. VIRTUE & CO., Limited, 294, CITY ROAD. 



