. The fruit-growers guide-book. s Page Apple curculio 144 Flat headed borer 145 Apple blossoms at stages for spraying 159 Strawberry leaf spot 172 Long stubs left in pruning 177 Large wounds properly made 180 Apple tree with open-top 184 Good arrangement of branches in young peach trees ..186 Three branches in head of peach tree 187 Average type of peach tree 188 Open head on peach tree 190 Low headed peach tree with open top 191 Dewberry trained to a post 197 Crops between trees 200 Tomatoes as a catch crop 202 Currant cuttings 209 Grape cuttings 214 Black raspberry cane with rooted tips 221
. The fruit-growers guide-book. s Page Apple curculio 144 Flat headed borer 145 Apple blossoms at stages for spraying 159 Strawberry leaf spot 172 Long stubs left in pruning 177 Large wounds properly made 180 Apple tree with open-top 184 Good arrangement of branches in young peach trees ..186 Three branches in head of peach tree 187 Average type of peach tree 188 Open head on peach tree 190 Low headed peach tree with open top 191 Dewberry trained to a post 197 Crops between trees 200 Tomatoes as a catch crop 202 Currant cuttings 209 Grape cuttings 214 Black raspberry cane with rooted tips 221 Strawberries for planting 230 Old strawberry plant 232 Strawberry flowers 236 Wide matted rows of strawberries 238 Portable canning outfit 241 A fine young apple orchard in the irrigated .250 Apple grafts 258 Long and short scions 259 Right and wrong way to plant a graft 260 Pear graft and scicns for cleft-grafting 261 A top-worked apple tree 263 Budding sticks 266 Budding peaches 268 Irrigating an apple orchard 277. BROTHER JONATHAN Trade Mark of The Fruit-Grower St. Joseph, Mo. Soils for an Orchard 15 CHAPTER I The Orchard One of the first questions that confronts a person whois starting an orchard is the problem of where to put is true that fruit trees will grow and thrive under avariety of conditions, but there is always one which is condition is based on such factors as the soil, site, lo-cation, kind of fruit that is to be grown and markets thatare to be supplied. Soils for an Orchard Apple trees will grow on a great variety of soils, butthey do best on well drained, deep, rich clays and early summer apples do well on light sandy soils,because they ripen their fruit before the dry weather ofsummer reduces the amount of available soil maturing varieties can be made to ripen their fruit alittle earlier by planting on warm soils, such as the lighterclays. Late apples do best on heavy soils, as such areusually more retentive o
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