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Title: Manual of American Grape-Growing

Author: U. P. Hedrick

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MANUAL OF AMERICAN GRAPE-GROWING

The Rural Manuals

EDITED BY L. H. BAILEY

MANUAL OF GARDENING--_Bailey_

MANUAL OF FARM ANIMALS--_Harper_

FARM AND GARDEN RULE-BOOK--_Bailey_

MANUAL OF FRUIT INSECTS--_Slingerland and Crosby_

MANUAL OF WEEDS--_Georgia_

THE PRUNING-MANUAL--_Bailey_

MANUAL OF FRUIT DISEASES--_Hesler and Whetzel_

MANUAL OF MILK PRODUCTS--_Stocking_

MANUAL OF VEGETABLE-GARDEN INSECTS--_Crosby
and Leonard_

MANUAL OF TREE DISEASES--_Rankin_

MANUAL OF HOME-MAKING--_Van Rensselaer, Rose,
and Canon_

MANUAL OF AMERICAN GRAPE-GROWING--_Hedrick_

MANUAL OF

AMERICAN GRAPE-GROWING

BY

U. P. HEDRICK

HORTICULTURIST OF THE NEW YORK AGRICULTURAL
EXPERIMENT STATION

New York
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1919

_All rights reserved_

COPYRIGHT, 1919,

BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.

Setup and electrotyped. Published June, 1919.

Norwood Press
J. S. Cushing Co.--Berwick & Smith Co.
Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.

PREFACE

Seventy-nine books on grapes enrich the pomology of North America, not
counting numerous state and national publications. Pomological writers
in America have been partial to the grape, for other fruits do not
fare nearly so well. Twenty-two books are devoted to the strawberry,
fourteen to the apple, to the peach nine, cranberry eight, plum five,
pear nine, quince two, loganberry one, while the cherry, raspberry,
and blackberry are not once separated from other fruits in special
books. Thus, though a comparative newcomer among the fruits of the
country, the grape has been sin