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Excerpt from The Fruit Grower's Instructor, Being a Practical Treatise on the Cultivation and Treatment of Fruit Trees: Containing a Description of All the Best Fruits Now in Cultivation, a Full Description of the Apple Fly, Commonly Called the American Blight, Which Causes the Canker in Apple Tree, With an Effectual Remedy: It Will Be Found Equally Useful to the Gentleman In addition to the treatise on apples, bud ding, and the various modes of grafting trees, with interesting observations thereon, I have given a list of all the leading fruits now in cultivation, both alphabetical and explanatory, which will be found very useful to those who are unacquainted with them. Also a descrip tion of several other insects, besides the apple fly, which are considered injurious to fruit trees. 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.