Home Fruit 
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 grow¬ 
ing 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 
Commercial Plant Propagation 
ALFRED C. HOTTES 
Though the title might infer that this book was written exclusively for the professional, the fact of 
the matter is that, having the endorsement of the practical propagator, the amateur, for that reason, 
can rely all the more fully on its instructions. The amateur gardener is offered a book, through the 
pages of which he may obtain not only full descriptions of just how plants are propagated, whether from 
seeds, cuttings, layering or grafting, but as well learn through its numerous educational illustrates 
just how the operation is performed. 
Commercial Plant Propagation is one of the most interesting books ever written. No gardener, 
whether private or amateur, having once tested its value, would be without it. To see a copy is to 
become its immediate owner, for it tells clearly and concisely how to perform these most fascinating 
operations of all garden work. 
To ensure the i 
fullest under¬ 
standing of the 
many operations 
described, there 
are given 31 half¬ 
tones and 75 
teaching line cuts 
in the book. 
Practically 
every one of the 
line cuts has been 
drawn specially 
for this work, and 
the majority of 
the halftone re¬ 
productions have 
been securedfor 
it. ' 
Cloth, 180 pages 
$1.90, postpaid. 
Fig. 60.—Side grafting the Rose. The cut in the stock should not be so nearly through the stem and is best made 
longer and more acutely than shown in the sketch. 
