This vintage book is a detailed guide to growing top-working fruit trees in dry locations, with information on tools and equipment, common problems, grafting, budding, and all other related aspects. Written in plain language and full of helpful illustrations, this volume will be of considerable utility to the novice grower, and would make for a fantastic addition to collections of allied literature. Contents include: ¿Cleft-Grafting¿, ¿Kerf-Grafting¿, ¿Bark-Grafting¿, ¿Terminal-Grafting¿, ¿Choosing the Stubs¿, ¿Season for Grafting¿, ¿Protecting the Body¿, ¿Cion Wood¿, ¿Growing the Top¿, ¿Grafting Young Trees¿, ¿Budding The Young Trees¿, ¿Top-Working Old Trees¿, ¿Top-Working Young Trees¿, etc. Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly rare and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this book now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially commissioned new introduction on growing fruit.