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Excerpt from A View of the Cultivation of Fruit Trees, and the Management of Orchards and Cider: With Accurate Descriptions of the Most Estimable Varieties of Native and Foreign Apples, Pears, Peaches, Plums, and Cherries, Cultivated in the Middle States of America; Illustrated by Cuts of Two Hundred Kinds of Fruits of the Natural Size
Introductory observations, chapter I. Of the fitness of the climate of the United for the cultivation of the Apple, II. On the management of a fruit nursery, III. On ingrafting large trees, IV. On Stocks, V. On the propagation of new varieties, VI. On the duration of particular varieties, VII. On the Sap, VIII. On innoculating, or budding, IX. On the situation of orchards, X. On the planting and cultivation of orchards, XI. On pruning of orchards, XII. Of the caterpillar, XIII. Experiments on orchards, to ascertain the best mode of planting and cultivating, XIV. On the properties and management of cider, XV. Of the concentration of cider by frost, XVI. On the nature and management of crab cider, XVII. Of Perry, XVIII. On fining cider, XIX. Of the buildings and machinery connected with a cider establishment.
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