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THE SMALL FRUIT CULTURIST.

BY

ANDREW S. FULLER.

Beautifully Illustrated.

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CONTENTS:

Chap. I. Barberry.
Chap. II. Strawberry.
Chap. III. Raspberry.
Chap. IV. Blackberry.
Chap. V. Dwarf Cherry.
Chap. VI. Currant.
Chap. VII. Gooseberry.
Chap. VIII. Cornelian Cherry.
Chap. IX. Cranberry.
Chap. X. Huckleberry.
Chap. XI. Sheperdia.
Chap. XII. Preparation for gathering Fruit.

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THE GRAPE CULTURIST

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Propagation by Single Buds or Eyes.
Propagating Houses and their Management fully described.
How to Grow.
Cuttings in Open Air, and how to Make Layers.
Grafting the Grape—A Simple and Successful Method.
Hybridizing and Crossing—Mode of Operation.
Soil and Situation—Planting and Cultivation.
Pruning, Training, and Trellises—all the Systems Explained.
Garden Culture—How to Grow Vines in a Door-Yard.
Insects, Mildew, Sun-Scald, and other Troubles.
Description of the Valuable and the Discarded Varieties.

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AMERICAN POMOLOGY

APPLES.

By Doct. JOHN A. WARDER,

PRESIDENT OHIO POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY; VICE-PRESIDENT AMERICAN POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY.

293 ILLUSTRATIONS.

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Chapter I.—INTRODUCTORY.
Chapter II.—HISTORY OF THE APPLE.
Chapter III.—PROPAGATION. - Buds and Cuttings—Grafting—Budding—The Nursery.
Chapter IV.—DWARFING.
Chapter V.—DISEASES.
Chapter VI.—THE SITE FOR AN ORCHARD.
Chapter VII.—PREPARATION OF 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 XIII and XIV.—INSECTS.
Chapter XV.—CHARACTERS OF FRUITS AND THEIR VALUE—TERMS USED.
Chapter XVI.—CLASSIFICATION. - Necessity for—Basis of—Characters—Shape—Its Regularity—Flavor—Color—Their several Values, etc. Description of Apples.
Chapter XVII.—FRUIT LISTS—CATALOGUE AND INDEX OF FRUITS.

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GARDENING FOR PROFIT

In the Market and Family Garden.

By Peter Henderson.

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FAMILY GARDEN,

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CONTENTS.

Men fitted for the Business of Gardening.
The Amount of Capital Required, and
Working Force per Acre.
Profits of Market 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 Green-houses.
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.

In the last chapter, the most valuable kinds are described, and the culture proper to each is given in detail.

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The American Agricultural Annual

FOR 1870.

A YEAR BOOK

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Almanac and Calendar for 1870. Agricultural and Kindred Journals. Agricultural and Kindred Books. Prospect and Retrospect. Immigration. Home Markets. Coöperation among Farmers. Commercial Fertilizers. The Crops and the Weather. Thorough Drainage. Agricultural Exhibitions. Poultry Societies and Shows. Importation of Live Stock. Death of Distinguished Agriculturists. Inventions affecting Agriculture. Novelties in Agricultural Seeds, etc. Oats. Sanford Corn. Potato Fever. Adobe or Earth-wall Building—by E. G. Potter. Potatoes Worth Raising—by Dr. F. M. Hexamer. Yield of Potatoes in 1869. Wheat Hoe. How to Train a Heifer. Care of Hen and Chickens. Cultivation of Root Crops. Kohl Rabi. Dry Earth—the Earth-Closet Principle in the Barn. General Agricultural Matters. Characteristics of Different Breeds of Thoroughbred Stock. Earth-Closets—Success of the System. Progress in Fish Culture. Cold Spring Trout Ponds. Bellows Falls Trout Pond. Montdale Ponds. S. H. Ainsworth's Ponds and Race. Mumford Ponds. Poheganut Trout Ponds. Breeds of Fish. Fish as Farm Stock—by W. Clift. The Stocking of Ponds and Brooks. English Agricultural Implements. Inventions affecting Milk, and Cheese-making—by Gardner B. Weeks. Notes on Veterinary Subjects. Coöperation in Swine-breeding. Letter from Dr. Calvin Cutter. Steaming Fodder for Milch Cows—by S. M. and D. Wells. The Harvester, Reaper, and Mower—by Isaac W. White. Improvement in Drain Tiles. Farmer's Directory.

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