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INDEX. 



Soils — Continued. 

 sterility of, 255. 



sterilization for oali-root fungus, 2 86. 

 tester, 147. 

 Solanuni, 



clouglasii, 85, 111, 112, 122. 

 jasminoides, 111, 112,' 445. 

 tuberosum, 111, 112. 

 Soluble sulphur, 269. 

 Soot, removing from fruit, 3. 

 Saphora microijhylla, 446. 

 Sound seed potatoes, 420-421. 

 Sour, orange stock, 513. 



sap, 320, 324. 

 Spalgis suistrigata, 27. 

 Sparmannia africana, 212. 

 Sphecidse, 354. 



Sphinx moth, Achemon, 378. 

 Spraying, cost of, for pears, 477. 

 Sprays, 



arsenate of lead, 34, 216, 217, 239, 

 266, 268. 



for caterpillars, 183, 214, 239. 

 codling moth, 183. 

 arsenical, 83, 183. 

 arsenite of zinc, 214, 266, 268. 

 atomic sulphur. 2 69. 



for mites, 239. 

 black leaf, "40," 217, 218. 



for grape leaf hopper, 186. 

 plant lice, 183, 214, 215. 

 Bordeaux, 148, 149, 218, 268, 270, 271, 



443. 

 carbolic acid emulsion, 137. 

 commercial, 138. 



crude oil emulsion, 324, 442, 537. 

 distillate oil emulsion, 218, 442, 537. 

 flour paste, 217, 242. 

 for aphis eggs, 480. 

 black scale, 332. 

 almond mite, 81. 

 anthracnose of beans, 84. 

 apple mildew, 46, 166, 186, 479. 



scab, 46, 166, 186. 

 bean thrips, 218. 

 black scale, 332, 374. 

 brown apricot scale, 442, 486, 536. 

 rot of stone fruits, 83, 166, 

 308. 

 cabbage worm, 216. 

 caterpillars, 183, 214, 239, 487. 

 citrus mealy bug, 82, 138. 

 codling moth, 44, 82, 163, 183, 



214, 294. 

 Diabrotica soror, 162. 

 European fruit scale, 442, 486, 



536. 

 fruit tree leaf roller, 285-286, 487. 

 grape leaf hopper, 186, 216. 

 mildew, 187. 

 root worm, 186, 216. 

 grasshoppers, 217. 

 hop aphis, 217, 242, 293. 

 Italian pear scale, 487, 536. 

 mealy bug, 137. 



Sprays — Continued. 

 for — 



oak moth, 217. 

 onion thrips, 218. 

 orange thrips, 165, 215. 

 peach blight, 443. 



leaf curl, 46, 84. 

 twig borer, 163. 

 pear leaf blister mite, 81. 

 slug, 215, 239, 292. 

 thrips, 45, 82, 163. 

 plant lice, 183, 214, 215. 

 red spider, 184, 217, 239, 242, 292. 

 rose aphis, 164. 

 mildew, 166. 

 San Jose scale, 536. 

 walnut aphis, 222. 

 woolly aphis, 80, 222. 

 Statistics, 337, 377, 419, 425, 426, 427, 531. 

 acreage of fruits, bearing and non- 

 bearing, 515. 

 cost of production, 

 cherry, 518. 

 olive, 436. 

 oranges, 438. 

 pears, 436. 

 Tokay grapes, 380. 

 Wickson plums, 3 80. 

 year, 476. 

 crop, 



almond, 337, 377. 

 apple, 377. 



peach, in California, 372. 

 report. (See crop reports.) 



walnut, 377. 

 horticultural, 471. 



orange production, Sacramento, 438. 

 various fruits, 515, 516, 517. 

 StepJtanotus floribunda, 300. 

 Sterilization of soils, 45. 

 Stevens, H. E., 512. 

 Stocks, 



for apricots, 307. 



Fruit Trees, art, 449-455. 



adaptability of species, 450. 

 age limit altered by, 450. 

 color changed by, 451. 

 disease infection from, 450. 

 flavor affected by, 451. 

 future of, 455. 

 productiveness altered by, 



450-451. 

 propagation of, 454. 

 relation to form and stature 



of plant, 449-450. 

 resistance due to, 450. 



of scion to, 453. 

 size increased by, 451. 

 time maturity changed by, 

 451. 

 peach, 329. 

 plums, 364. 

 Strawberry, 30, 85, 220. 

 crown moth, 35, 165. 

 white grubs in, 30. 



