INDEX. 



559 



Peach — Continued. 



varieties — Continued. 

 Lovell, 145, 149. 

 Muir, 145, 147, 149. 

 Salway, 147, 148. 

 West India scale, 445. 

 Yellows, 148, 372, 373. 

 Pear, 85, 111. 173, 180, 188, 189, 218, 220, 

 244, 245, 295, 336, 376, 486, 487, 515, 

 516, 536. 



apricot scale on, 4 42. 

 l)light, 243, 443. 

 carried by, 



ants. 507-50S. 

 aphis, 509-510. 

 flies, 507. 



honeybee, 506-507. 

 pear thrips, 508-509. 

 Natural modes of distribution in 

 California, art., 505-511. 

 cost of production in Sacramento 



county, 476-477. 

 meeting of growers, 429. 

 quarantine by Idaho, 156. 

 quince stocks for, 4 49. 

 ru.sset mite, 338. 

 scab, 46, 84, 186, 218, 477. 

 shipments, 426. 



Size, color and quality of, 355-357. 

 slug, 215, 239, 292, 401. 

 soils for, 348-349. 

 Standardization of, 42 4. 

 sterility of Bartlett, 302. 

 thrips, 45, 82, 156, 163, 178, 189. 

 Winter Nellis, 450. 

 Pease, S. A., 111. 

 Peat lands in Holland, development of, 



412. 

 Peckham, H. C, 331. 

 Pegomyia vicina, 539. 

 Pellucid Rrasshopper, 2 41-242. 

 Pemphifftis fraxini-dipetalw, 220. 

 Pentatomids, 510. 

 Peridroma saucia, 285. 

 Persea mcyeniana, 299. 

 Persimmon, West Indian peach scale on, 



445. 

 Peruvian alfalfa, 58. 

 Philippine Islands, 26, 27, 28. 

 Phobetus comatus, 296. 

 Pholns achemon, 378. 

 Phoenicococcus viarlutti, 440. 

 Phomoosis citri, 52. 94, 95. 170, 171, 193, 



194, 225. 226, 250, 251, 299, 447. 

 Phorbia brassic(E, 445. 

 Phosphoric acid, 175. 

 fertilizer, 501. 

 effect of, 502. 

 Phragmites communis, 378. 

 Phreaner. E. H., 420. 

 Phryganidia californica, 220. 

 Phtliorimcra opercullea (see tuber moth). 

 Phylloxera vastatrix, 95. 

 Physokermes insignicola, 168. 

 Phytomyza aquifoUi, 539. 



Pierce, G. W. 



Almond, The, art, 456-465. 

 W. Dwight, 156. 

 Pigweed, 122. 

 Pine, 378. 



Norfolk Island. 108, 121. 

 yellow, 47, 189. 

 Pineapple, fruit-fly situation in Hawaii, 



233. 

 Pinus ponderosa, 47. 

 Pittosporum tenuifolium, 446. 

 Placentia English walnut, 495. 

 Plant, 



diseases, 



Anthracnose of beans, 84. 



brown rot, 



of citrus, 165. 



stone fruits, S3, 166, 308. 

 cherry gummosis, 166. 

 citrus canker, 371, 213. 

 grape mildew, 187, 218. 

 green mold of citrus, 165. 

 lemon gummosis, 243. 

 loose smut of oats, 488. 



wheat, 488. 

 mildew, 



apple, 46, 177, 187, 478. 

 rose, 166. 

 oak root fungus, 276. 

 of alfalfa, 70. 

 wilt, 



cantaloupe, 46. 

 cucumber, 46. 

 melon, 46. 

 olive knot, 186. 

 peach, blight, 433. 



-leaf curl. 46, 84, 443. 

 yellow, 372. 

 pear blight, 218, 243, 443, 505. 

 scab, 



apple, 46, 166, 186, 21R. 

 pear, 46, 166, 186, 218. 

 scab, 



potato, 46. 167. 

 shothole fungus of almond, 538. 

 tomato. 294. 

 winter blight of, 84. 

 Plant, 



lice spreading pear blight, 508, 509, 

 510. 

 Plants, 



pollination of, 301-304. 

 Platycerlum sp., 119. 

 Plowing, 22. 

 Plowsole, 



prevention of formation, 23. 

 removal from orchards, 147. 

 Plum, 31, 34, 35, 119, 173, 180, 188, 218. 

 244, 245, 376, 486, 487, 504, 515, 516. 

 536. 



apricot scab on, 442. 



bill relative to standardization, 425. 



brown rot of, 83. 



cherry fruit-fly in, 31. 



culture and handling of, art, 363-366. 



