Produced by Steven Giacomelli, Diane Monico, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images produced by Core Historical Literature in Agriculture (CHLA), Cornell University) 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 79 XIII. The Mending of the Apple-Tree 85 XIV. Citizens of the Apple-Tree 89 XV. The Apple-Tree Regions 97 XVI. The Harvest of the Apple-Tree 102 XVII. The Appraisal of the Apple-Tree 107 [Illustration: 1. The home apple-tree] THE APPLE-TREE I WHERE THERE IS NO APPLE-TREE