AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
[JULY, 
350 
NEW AND 
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SPORTSMAN’S 
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AND 
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BARRY’S 
Fruit Garden. 
By P. BARRY. 
IVew Edition, Revised and Brought 
Down to Date by the Author. 
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which it treats. 
CONTENTS. 
PART I— General Principles. 
Names, Descriptions, and Offices of the Different Parts of 
Fruit Trees. — Soils. — Manures. — The Different Modes of 
Propagating Fruit Trees. — Pruning, Its Principles and 
Practice. 
PART II.—The Nursery. 
Soil, Situation, etc. 
PART III.— The Laying Out, Arrangement, and Gen¬ 
eral Management op Permanent Plantations op 
Fruit Treks, Selection op Trees and Varieties, 
and Pruning and Conducting Trees Under Vari¬ 
ous Forms. 
Permanent Plantations of Fruit Trees. — Pruning and 
Training applied to the Different Species of Fruit Trees 
under Various Forms. 
PART IV.—Select Varieties of Fruits, Gathering 
and Preserving Fruits, Diseases, Insects, Imple¬ 
ments in Common Use. 
Abridged Descriptions of Select Varieties of Fruits.— 
Gathering, Packing, Transportation, and Preservation of 
Fruits.—Diseases and Insects.—Nursery, Orchard,and Fruit 
Garden Implements. 
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By the Late DAVID FOSTER. 
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“ 5.—Bottom Fishing ( Continued). 
“ 0.—Pike Fishing. 
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“ 12.—Fly Fishing for Trout and Grayling. 
“ 13.—Live Fly and Beetle Fishing. 
“ 14.—Notes on the Month for Fly Fishing. 
“ 15. — Salmon and Sea Trout Fishing. 
“ 16. — About Hooks. 
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