Excerpt from The Apple Culturist The apple that vies with the peach and the grape. - edwards. From early boyhood the writer of this little treatise has been practically engaged, more or less every year, in the propagation of apple-trees and the management of orchards. As there is no little manual on Apple Orchards in all our agricultural and pomolog ical literature which a beginner may study as a reliable guide in every branch of apple culture, and as the author in early life was obliged to advance from one step to another, in the rearing and management of apple-trees, by the slow and often uncertain way of determining the better practices by experiments, he feels war ranted in preparing a small volume, in which are embodied the successful results of the experience of more than forty years. Most of the works on pomology are either too voluminous and expensive to meet all the requirements of men who need a cheap book containing brief directions for beginners, or the writers have assumed that their readers already possess a pretty correct under standing of that branch of pomology which treats of the correct mode of propagating apple-trees, and the most satisfactory manner of managing apple orchards in order to produce profitable crops of fruit. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.