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HISTORY. 
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SITE FOR AN ORCHARD. 
PREPARATION OF SOIL. 
SELECTION, PLANTING. 
CULTURE & PRUNING. 
RIPENING & PRESERVING. 
CLASSIFICATION & DESCRIPTION 
CATALOGUE AND INDEX. 
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How to Make Layers. 
Crafting the Grape. 
Hybridizing, Crossing. 
Soil, Situation, Planting. 
Insects, Mildew, Sunscald/etc. 
Valuable, & Discarded Varieties. 
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Men Fitted for Gardening. 
Amount of Capital Required. 
Profits of Market Gardening. 
Manures and Implements. 
Location, Situation, Preparation 
When, and Where to Sow. 
Transplanting; Insects. 
Varieties and Cultivation. 
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Preservation in Winter. 
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DRAINING FOR PROFIT 
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DRAINING FOR HEALTH. 
By GEO. E. WARING, Jit., 
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Illustrated. 
TABLE OF CONTENTS: 
LAND TO BE DRAINED AND THE 
P.EASONS WHY.— Indications of the need of draining — 
Sources of water. — Objections to too much water.— "Wet 
sub-soil. 
HOW DRAINS ACT AND HOW 
THEr AFFECT THE SOIL— Characteristics of well laid 
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springs and soakage water injurious.— Cracking of stiff 
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HOW TO GO TO WORK TO LAY 
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HOW TO TAKE CARE OF DRAINS 
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WHAT DRAINING COSTS. 
Draining, expensive work.— Their permanence and last- 
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- — (1. Engineering and Superintendence.— 2. Digging the 
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Increased crops required to pay cost of draining. — (Corn, 
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HOW TO MAKE DRAINING TILES. 
Materials.— Preparation of earths.— Moulding tile ma- 
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THE RECLAIMLNG OF SALT 
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Utilisation of sewage matters In agriculture— Effects of 
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