He who knows the apple-tree knows also its region. The landscape is his in every blessed year; he sees the chariots of the months come down from the distances and pass by him into the twilights. Clouds are his and the repeating shadows on the hills. The morning when the blossoms are laden with the fragrance of the night, high noon when the bees are busy, the gloaming when the birds drop into the boughs, these are his by divine right. The smell of new-plowed fields is his, with the urgent promise in them. Seed time and harvest, as old as the procreant earth and as new as the latest sunrise, are his to conjure. The verities are his for the asking, the strong things of cultivated fields and of wild places. And mastery is his, that comes of the amelioration of the land and the education of the tree. All these are everyman's, and yet they are his alone. INDEX PAGE Acid phosphate 45 Age of apple-trees 98 Alternate bearing 42 American Pomological Society 66 Apple-scab 95 Appleseed, Johnny 61 Arsenate of lead 95 Australia, Apples in 97 Bacteria 12 Bark of apple-tree 11 of cherry 11 of elm 11 of pear-tree 11 Bearing year 42 Black Gilliflower 73 Bloomless apple 75 Bolting trees 88 Bridge-grafting 88 Brush pile 27 Budding 50, 51 Buds 15, 19, 27 Calyx-tube 26 Canada, apples in 98 Canker 12 Cherimoya 8 Cherry, bark of 11 Christophine 8 Cider, treatise on 62 Cion-grafting 50, 79 Citrus fruits 8 Cleft-grafting 82 Coconut 8 Codlin-moth 12, 89 Custard apple 8 Diseases 46 Distance apart 43 Double apples 74 Doucin stocks 57 Downing, quoted 54, 67 Dwarf apple-trees 54 Elm, bark of 11 Endicott, Gov. 61 Enriching the land 45 Exhibitions 108 Fertilizing 40, 44, 45 Fig 8 Flower, structure of 20 Folger and Thomson, quoted 98 Fructicetum 78 Fruit-spurs and bearing 42 Fungi 12 Girdles 87 Graftage 49, 79