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Ground Plan of Farm-House 255 Summer-House 256 Laborer's Cottage 257 Ground Plan of Laborer's Cottage 257 Italian Farm-House 258 Ground Plan of Italian Farm-House 258 Neglected Peach-Tree 324 Properly-Trimmed Peach-Tree 324 Plan of a Pear-Orchard 338 Bartlett Pear 340 Beurré Diel Pear 341 White Doyenne Pear 342 Flemish Beauty 343 Seckel 345 Gray Doyenne Pear 346 The Curculio 355 Lawrence's Favorite Plum 356 Imperial Gage 357 Egg-Plum 357 Green Gage 358 Jefferson Plum 358 Washington Plum 359 French Merino Ram 386 Shepherdia, or Buffalo Berry 390 Strawberry Blossoms 397 Fan Training (Four Illustrations) 417, 418 Horizontal Training (Two Illustrations) 419 Conical Training (Four Illustrations) 420

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SOIL CULTURE.

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ACCLIMATION.

This is the art of successfully changing fruits or plants from one climate to another. Removal to a colder climate should be effected in the spring, and to a warmer one in the fall. This may be done by scions or seeds. By seeds is better, in all cases in which they will produce the same varieties. Very few imported apple or pear trees are valuable in this country; while our finest varieties, perfectly adapted to our climate, were raised from seeds of foreign fruits and their descendants. The same is true of the extremes of this country. Baldwin apple-trees, forty or fifty years old, are perfectly hardy in the colder parts of New England; while the same imported from warmer sections of the Union fail in severe winters. This fact has given many new localities the reputation of being poor fruit-regions. When we remove fruit-trees to a similar climate in a new country, they flourish well, and we call it a good fruit-country. Remove trees from the same nursery to a different climate and soil, and they are not hardy and vigorous, and we call it a poor fruit-country. These two localities may be equally good for fruit, with suit