A handbook for any keen amateur wishing to understand and create a garden of formal, classic design.

This early work on pruning fruit trees is both expensive and hard to find in its first edition. It contains information on the time to prune, pruning shapes, tools and much more. This is a fascinating work and is thoroughly recommended for the amateur fruit grower. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone

This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!

This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages.

This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Beginners Guide to Fruit Growing A Simple Statement of the Elementary Practices of Propagation, Planting, Cul- ture, Fertilization, Pruning, Spraying, etc. By F. A. WAUGH Amply Illustrated - PREFACE THIS little book is written for the one who does not know. The man who has already arrived may think it hardly worth while, but I ask him to remember that the simplest questions are the ones oftenest asked, and that the beginners are the ones who oftenest need help. I trust no one will be- grudge the excellent company of novices even so small a help as that which is here most humbly offered by their friend and well wisher, F. A. WAUGFL Massachusetts Agricultural College, 1912. PROPAGATION PLANTING MANAGEMENT PRUNING SPRAYING TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER I CHAPTER II CHAPTER III CHAPTER IV CHAPTER V CHAPTER VI THE VARIOUS FRUITS 96 RENOVATION CHAPTER VII 39 58 109