The Home Fruit Grower 



By PROF. M. G. KAINS 



A CLEAR, simple, practical and comprehensive volume for the amateur 

 who seeks to grow high quality fruits for home needs, whether to 

 eat out of hand as dessert, or put up in some culinary way. 



The author is particularly well fitted to write this book, having been 

 reared in just such a fruit plantation, and in a village where for more 

 than half a century the leading hobby has been high quality fruit growing 

 for family use. With this standard of excellence he has united the best 

 modern methods of securing choice specimens — methods little practised, or 

 even unknown, in his boyhood days — tillage, spraying, thinning, fertilizing, 

 cover cropping, preventing frost injuries, low heading, rational pruning — 

 each simple in itself and each conducive to the production of an abundance 

 of the best fruit. 



Among the general topics discussed are: 

 Choosing Varieties 

 Buying Nursery Stock 

 Season to Plant 

 Preparation, Fertilization 



and Management of 



the Soil 



Cover Cropping 



Pruning 



Thinning 



Spraying 



Harvesting 



Storing 



Besides these general topics each fruit suitable to the home garden is 

 discussed, in many cases with descriptions of a dozen, a score or even more 

 varieties of conspicuous merit from the home plantation standpoint: 



Apple Apricot Fig 



Pear Strawberry Juneberry 



Quince Raspberry Pawpaw 



Peach Dewberry Persimmon 



Nectarine Blackberry Kaki 



Plum Grape Pomegranate 



Cherry Loquat Wineberry 



There is also a chapter on dwarf fruit trees, cordon and espalier train- 

 ing, and a special chapter on the influence of home fruit growing in the 

 education of public taste, the author herein showing that the amateur 

 fruit plantation really deserves the credit for raising and maintaining 

 national standards of excellence. This chapter should prove an inspira- 

 tion to all who enioy fruit and is alone worth the price of the book. 



Heavily illustrated with teaching pictures. Paper, $1.00. Cloth, 

 11.50. By maiU postpaid. 



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