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INDEX. 



PAGE 



Hvbridizing 55 



Howel 246 



Heeling in 103 



Introduction 13 



Invigorating Old Trees 120 



Insect Blight 176 



Improved Varieties, immunity from 



Leaf-blight 177 



Leaf-blight of Seedlings 53 



Lawrence 202 



Louise Bonne de Jersey 218 



Manure for Pear Trees 27 



Manuring 26 



Manures for Nursery Stocks 67 



Special do. for Pear Trees 117 



Mulching 114 



Cropping for do 116 



MooKE, A. O., Article on Scale In- 

 sect 179 



MooKE A. O., Article on Pear Slug. . 182 



Madeleine 247 



Marie Louise 248 



Maeketixg Pears 263 



Napoleon 249 



Nouveau Poiteau 250 



Onondaga 251 



Oswego Bourre 252 



Old Trees, Invigorating 120 



Paet 1 17 



Part II 45 



Paet III 86 



Part IV 122 



Part V 147 



Part VI 173 



Part VII 178 



Part VIII 188 



Part IX 261 



Preface v 



Preparation of the Soil 17 



Plowing and Cropping the Ground. 20 

 Propagation by Layers and Cuttings 59 



Planting Seed 4S 



Planting Stocks 65 



Cost of 67 



Preparation of Stocks for Planting. . 70 

 Planting Trees 104 



Proper Age for 90 



Depth of . . .• 110 



Plan of Arranging Pear Orchard. . 106 

 Pruning and Eoot-pruning before 



Planting 97 



Pyramidal Shape, Advantage of 147 



Pruning to form Pyramids 150 



Pruning to a Bud 157 



Pruning, Eules for 166 



Season 168 



Pruning Roots, Effect of, on Shape, 

 &c 168 



Mr. EiVEES on do 168 



Parsonage 253 



Paradise d'Automne 254 



Passe Colmar 254 



Pear Slug 182 



Quince Stocks 60 



Propagation of 61 



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I Quince Stocks, otS.ce of 122 



1 Quince, Causes of Failure of Pear on 123 



i Quince-stock, Advantages of 124 



I Berckmaxs' L. E., Article on. . . I'il 



Wilder, M. P., do 180 



I Do. do 1.32 



Buist, E. do 136 



Hovey, C. do 137 



Eules for growing Pear on 138 



Eooting of the Pear above 139 



How to' produce it 143 



Quenouille Training 164 



Qualities now required for Market 



Pears 189 



Eemoving the Wood of Old Dwarfs. 153 

 Eoot-pruning, &c.. Effect on Shape 



and Fruiting 168 



EivEES', Mr., Eemarks on do. . . 170 



Eostiezer 255 



Eipening Winter Pears 265 



Difficulty of 266 



Laws governing, do 265 



Eooting of the Pear 96 



Eeplanting the Pear to form Fibrous 



Eoots 102 



Scolytus pyri 178 



Scale Insect 178 



Washes to destroy,. 179 



A. O. Mooee's Article on 179 



Slug. Pear 182 



A. O. Mooee's Article on 183 



Season for Eemoving and Planting 



Trees 7 94 



Sheldon 256 



Soldat Laboureur 257 



St. Michael Archange 258 



Seckel 204 



Boils affecting the Quality of Pears.. 261 



Summer Pinching 159 



Season for Pruning 168 



Soils for the Pear 38 



Seedlings 45 



Leaf-blight of 57 



New Varieties of 51 



Cultivation of .'. . 50 



Van Moms' Theory of Improve- 

 ment 52 



Indications of good Varieties .... 53 



Seed-planting 48 



Thinning Fruit 261 



Terms relating to Quality 188 



Trenching 21 



Cost of 23 



Transporting 43 



Urbaniste 223 



Van Mons' Theory of Improving 



Seedlings 52 



Vicar of Winkfield 220 



Withered Trees, Treatment ot 103 



Winter Pears, Eipening of 265 



Difficulty of 266 



Laws Governing do 265 



Winter Nelis 205 



White Doyenne 224 



