Excerpt from Popular Fruit Growing: Prepared Especially for Beginners and as a Text Book for Schools and Colleges

The development of the teaching of Agriculture has made necessary, and has been largely dependent on, the making of textbooks of various kinds adapted to the special technical work for which our best agricultural schools stand.

When these agricultural colleges started there were no textbooks adapted to their special lines of work, and the demand necessitated the hasty preparation of textbooks which are now being replaced by those that are more complete and better adapted In every way for teaching purposes.

This book is the result of the development of the teaching of Fruit Growing in the University of Minnesota and is, in a way, a compilation of lectures on Fruit Growing given to the students which have been carefully revised and considerably extended. At the end of each chapter are suggestive questions on the matter presented.

An appendix is added which contains formulas for fungicides, Insecticides and grafting waxes, etc.; lists of fruits recommended for special typical states and rules for naming fruits. The fruit lists are from the professors of Horticulture of the various Agricultural Colleges and from secretaries of the various Horticultural Societies.

In the preparation of this work I have had the earnest and intelligent assistance of Miss Jeannette Foster. I am also under obligations to my assistant in Horticulture, Mr. A. R. Kohler, who prepared the pages on Spraying and Spraying machinery; to Mr. Elvin Peterson, student of the College of Agriculture, who has made many of the drawings; to Prof. Frederick Washburn for cuts which he has loaned; to Prof. E. M. Freeman for many suggestions embodied in the chapter on Plant Diseases and to Mr. A. G. Ruggles for suggestions in regard to the chapter on Insects Injurious to Fruits. I am also under obligations to those who have assisted by furnishing data for the fruit list and In other ways aided in its preparation.

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