American Pomology. Apples

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John Aston Warder. American Pomology. Apples

PREFACE

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER II

HISTORY OF THE APPLE

RUNNING OUT OF VARIETIES

CHAPTER III

PROPAGATION.—SECTION I

PROPAGATION.—SECTION II.—GRAFTING

PROPAGATION.—SECTION III.—BUDDING

PROPAGATION.—SECT. IV.—THE NURSERY

CHAPTER IV

DWARFING

DWARFING THE APPLE

CHAPTER V

DISEASES

CHAPTER VI

THE SITE FOR AN ORCHARD

CHAPTER VII

PREPARATION OF THE SOIL FOR AN ORCHARD

CHAPTER VIII

SELECTION AND PLANTING

CHAPTER IX

CULTURE, ETC

CHAPTER X

PHILOSOPHY OF PRUNING

CHAPTER XI

THINNING

CHAPTER XII

RIPENING AND PRESERVING FRUITS

CHAPTER XIV

INSECTS

CHAPTER XV

CHARACTERS OF FRUITS AND THEIR VALUE. TERMS USED

CHAPTER XVI

CLASSIFICATION

DOCHNAHL'S CLASSIFICATION

DESCRIPTIONS OF APPLES. ARRANGED ACCORDING TO THEIR CLASSIFICATION ALPHABETICALLY, UNDER EACH DIVISION

CHAPTER XVII

FRUIT LISTS

HARDY AND TENDER

SWEET APPLES FOR BAKING AND FOR STOCK FEEDING

CATALOGUE AND INDEX OF APPLES

EXPLANATION

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Few persons have any idea of the great value and importance of the products of our orchards and fruit-gardens. These are generally considered the small things of agriculture, and are overlooked by all but the statist, whose business it is to deal with these minutiæ, to hunt them up, to collocate them, and when he combines these various details and produces the sum total, we are all astonished at the result.

Our government wisely provides for the gathering of statistics at intervals of ten years, and some of the States also take an account of stock and production at intermediate periods, some of them, like Ohio, have a permanent statistician who reports annually to the Governor of the State.

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For out-door work he used the following:

This is made into a mass to be applied by hand. A very pleasant and neat mode of using the wax is to pour it when melted, upon thin muslin or strong paper, and spread it thin with a spatula. The tissue is then cut into strips of convenient size. The application to cotton yarn for root-grafting, has already been mentioned.

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