AMERICAN AG-RICU LTURIST, 
[October, 
38^ 
Just 
A NEW WORK OH APPLES. 
AMERICAN POMOLOGY. 
apples. 
By Doct. JOHN A. WARDER, 
PRESIDENT OHIO HOMOEOGICAD SOCIETY ; YICE-PEESIPEOT 
AMERICAN POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY, ETC. 
llliistE'satiosis. 
To pomologists a work by Dr. Warder will need no 
commendation. Though a citizen of Ohio, he is so sure 
to be at any pomological gathering, be it East or West, 
that the whole country claims him, and if any one has a 
right to entitle his work American Pomology it is certain¬ 
ly Dr. W’ardcr. The present is the first instalment of a 
work intended to cover the whole ground. In it the 
author has attempted the difficult task of bringing apples 
into something like order. 
This volume has about 750 pages, the first 875 of which 
are devoted to the discussion of the general subjects of 
propagation, nursery culture, selection and planting, cul¬ 
tivation of orchards, care of fruit, insects, and tjie like, 
the remainder is occupied with descriptions of apples. 
With the richness of material at hand, the trouble was to 
decide what to leave out. It will be found that while the 
old and standard varieties are not neglected, the new and 
promising sorts, especially those of the South and West, 
have prominence. A list of selections for different lo¬ 
calities by eminent orchardists is a valuable portion of 
the volume, while the Analytical Index or Catalogue 
Maisonne^ as the Erench would say, is the most extended 
American fruit list ever published, and gives evidence of 
a fearful amount of labor. 
This differs from any fruit book heretofore published in 
this country, in its complete classification of apples. The 
author gives the principal European systems and mod¬ 
estly puts forth his own to be tested by pr£||tice. He di¬ 
vides apples into four classes, according to their fonns. 
Each of these classes is sub-divided by other obvious 
characters, and it would seem that any apple described in 
the hook might be easily identified. We trost that this 
will prove a great help to the pomologist. 
Fruit-growers will welcome this hook as a valuable and 
long-wished for addition to pomological literature, and it 
will be found equally useful to the novice and the experi¬ 
enced orchardist. The work has 293 illustrations, is 
printed on good paper and well bound, 
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GAKDENING FOR PROFIT, 
BY PETER HENDERSON. 
Illustratcil. 
This is the first work on Market Gardening ever pub- 
lished in this country. Its author is well known as a 
market gardener of eighteen years’ successful experience. 
In this work he has recorded this experience, and given 
without reservation the methods necessary to the profita¬ 
ble culture of the commercial or 
It is a work for which there has long been a demand, 
and one which will commend Itself, not only to those 
who grow vegetables for sale, hut to the cultivator of the 
FARIIIiY GARDEN 
To -whom it presents methods quite different from the 
old ones generally practiced. It is an 
ORIGINAL AND PURELY AMERICAN 
work, and not made up, as ho oks on gardening too often 
are, by quotations from foreign authors. 
Eveiything is made perfectly plain, and the subject 
treated in all its details, from the selection of the soil to 
preparing the products for market. Frames, Hot-beds, 
and Forcing Houses, the management of which is usually 
BO troublesome to the novice, are fully described, and the 
conditions of success and causes of failure clearly stated. 
The success of the market gardeners near New York 
City is proverbial, and this is the only work that sets forth 
the means by which this success has been attained. Yal- 
uahle hints are given to those who would raise Vogetahies 
at the South for northern markets. 
The following synopsis of its contents will show the 
scope of the work : 
Men Fitted tov the Hnsincss of Gardening. 
Tlie Amount of Capital Required and 
"Worlcing Force per Acre. 
Profits of Marlcet Gardening. 
location, Situation, and Laying Out. 
Soils, Drainage, and Preparation. 
Manures. Implements. 
Uses and Management of Cold Frames. 
Formation and Management of Hot-beds 
Forcing Pits or Grcen-liouses. 
Seeds and Seed Raising. 
How, When, and Where to Sow Seeds. 
Transplanting. Insects. 
Packing of Vegetables for Shipping. 
Preservation of Vegetables in Winter. 
Vegetables, their Varieties and Cultivation. 
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SaUASHES; 
HOW TO GROW THEM. 
By JAMES J. H. GREGORY. 
A most valuable little Treatise for Farmers and Gar¬ 
deners. It tells about 
Selecting the Soil. 
How much Nianure. 
Preparing and Planting. 
Hoeing and Cultivating. 
Setting of the Fruit. 
Ripening; Gathering. 
Storing of the Crop. 
Care During Winter. 
Market Prices and Varieties. 
When to Take Out Seed. 
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GRAPE OULTUEIST". 
By ANDREW S. FULLER. 
TTiis is the lest Hook pxiblished on Hardy Grape Culture. 
CONTENTS. 
INTRODUCTORY.—BOTANICAL CHARACTER OF THE 
Vine, Propagation by Seed.—4 Illustrations. 
GROWING FROM SEED—GATHER WHEN FULLY RIPE. 
PROPAGATION BY SINGLE BUDS.-MODE OF OPERA- 
tion. Planting in Beds, Single Buds in Open Air, Starting 
in Hot-Beds, Form of Single Bud Cutting—5 Illustrations. 
CUTTINGS OF UNRIPE WOOD.-THOUSANDS OF VINES 
are Annually Produced from Green Cnttlngs.—4 Illust. 
PROPAGATING HOUSE.-PERFECTION SHOULD BE 
our Aim, Span Roofed Propagating House. Lean-to 
Propagating House, Single Roofed House, Flues.—2 III. 
CUTTINGS IN OPEN AIR.—TIME TO MAKE CUTTINGS, 
Selection of Cuttings, Form of Cuttings, Mallet Cuttings. 
LAYERING THE VINE.-THIS IS ONE OF THE MOST 
Certain and Convenient Methods in Use.—t llhistration. 
GRAFTING THE GR.hPE.—THIS IS AN OLD BUT VERY 
Uncertain Mode of Propagating the Grape, hut Can be 
Used Successfully.—4 Illustrations. 
HYBRIDIZING AND CROSSING.-THESE ARE OPERA- 
tions that Should Demand the Attention of Every One 
Who Undertakes to Produce New Varieties, Mode of 
Operation.—3 Illustrations. 
TRANSPLANTING-VINES WILL OFTEN REQUIRE ONE 
Season of Nursery Culture before being Planted in the 
Vineyard, Heeling-in.—3 Illustrations. 
SOIL AND SITUATION.-MUCH DEPENDS UPON THEM. 
Preparing the Soil, Manures and their Operations 
STEM APPENDAGES. — SPINES, HAIRS, LATERALS, 
Forms of Leaves, Tendrils, Buds.—7 Illustrations. 
PLANTING THE VINE.— A GREAT DIVERSITY OF 
Opinion, My Own Rule, Root Pruning, How to Plant. 
GRAPE TRELLISES.—2 Illustrations. 
TIME TO PRUNE VHNES.— PRUNING AND TRAINING, 
Opposite Arms, Oblique Anns, A Plan for Poor Soils. 
GARDEN CULTURE.—POSITION OF BORDEPv. TRAIN- 
ing the Vines, Four Tiers of Arms, Double Stem, Trel¬ 
lises in Gardens, Training to Stakes, Girdling the 7 ine. 
Removing tlie Lea\es.—9 Illustrations. 
GATHERING THE ERUIT.-PRESERVING THE FRUIT, 
Wine Making, Pruning Shears.—1 Illustration. 
INSECTS.—ROSE CHAFER. GRAPE VINE ELEA BEE- 
tle. Spotted Pelidnota, Tree Beetle, Caterpillars, Y'ellow 
Bear, pog Caterpillar, Grape Vine Sphinx, Blue Caterpil¬ 
lar, Procris Americana, Leaf Rollers, Thrips, Aphis, Retl 
Spider, Vine Scale, Diseases, Mildew, Sun Scald.-18 Ulus. 
DESCRIPTION OF (.nearly Severity) VARIETIES. 
REVIEW OF VARIOUS SYSTEMS OF PRUNING AND 
Training, Reversing the Arms, Single Arm System. Bow 
system. Long Rod Spur Sj'stem, Upright Canes, Thomery 
System.—Index. 
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