""H.M. Stringfellow, in this 1896 work, aims to show that the principles of horticulture, as they were put into practice at the time, are wrong and that there is a more natural, easier, and inexpensive way to grow fruit than was commonly done. While some of the details are most applicable to growers in the South (the author being from Texas), the basic ideas of the work should be of interest to farmers throughout the United States.""