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Title: The Apple-Tree
The Open Country Books--No. 1

Author: L. H. Bailey

Release Date: July 26, 2008 [EBook #26132]

Language: English

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THE APPLE-TREE

THE OPEN COUNTRY BOOKS

A continuing company of genial little books
about the out-of-doors

Under the editorship of
L. H. BAILEY

1. The Apple-Tree L. H. Bailey
2. A Home Vegetable Garden Ella M. Freeman
3. The Cow Jared Van Wagenen, Jr.

Others about weather and the sky, scenery,
camps, recreation, quadrupeds, fishes, birds,
insects, reptiles, plants, and the places in the
open.

The Open Country Books--No. 1

THE APPLE-TREE

BY
L. H. BAILEY

NEW YORK
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1922
_All rights reserved_

PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

COPYRIGHT, 1922,
BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.

Set up and electrotyped. Published January, 1922.

FERRIS PRINTING COMPANY
NEW YORK

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I. Where There is no Apple-Tree 7

II. The Apple-Tree in the Landscape 10

III. The Buds on the Twigs 15

IV. The Weeks Between the Flower and the Fruit 19

V. The Brush Pile 27

VI. The Pruning of the Apple-Tree 36

VII. Maintaining the Health and Energy of the Apple-Tree 41

VIII. How an Apple-Tree is Made 48

IX. The Dwarf Apple-Tree 54

X. Whence Comes the Apple-Tree? 60

XI. The Varieties of Apple 66

XII. The Pleasant Art of Grafting