INDEX 



Adverse temperatures: effects of, 



vary with conditions, 313, 314 ; 



limits of, 315. 

 Africa, peach-production in, 23. 

 Age, at bearing, 98, 114; of trees for 



planting, 62, 88. 

 Agriculture, department of, cited, 



406. 

 Air, stratification of, 40. 

 Alabama, varieties for, 354. 

 Alderman, W. H., cited, 162 ; quoted, 



164. 

 Alfalfa, 129. 

 Alsike clover, 138. 

 Altitude, relation of, to frosts, 30. 

 American Pomological Society, — 



rules of nomenclature of, 378. 

 Amygdalus Davidiana, 48. 

 Amygdalus nectarina, 382. 

 Amygdalus Persica, 380, 381. 

 Amygdalics Persica, var. nucipersica, 



382. 

 Anarisa lineatclla, 232. 

 Antiquity of the peach, 1. 

 Aphis, black, 233 ; green, 235. 

 Aphis persicce-niger, 233. 

 Argentina, production of peaches in, 



20. 

 Arizona, varieties for, 354. 

 Arkansas, varieties for, 355. 

 Arkansas experiment station, men- 

 tioned, 161. 

 Arnold, J. H., quoted, 339. 

 Arsenate of calcium, 218; of lead, 



218, 284 ; use of lime with, 284. 

 Arsenical poison, 218. 

 Asia, peach-production in, 22. 

 Aspidiotus pemiciosus, 236. 



Associations, cooperative, 393. 



Atomic sulfur, 287. 

 Auctioning fruit, 414. 

 Aulacospis pentagona, 241. 

 Australia, peach-production in, 23. 

 Austria-Hungary, production of 



peaches in, 21. 

 Auto-trucks: a factor in marketing, 



34 ; for transportation, 405. 



Bacteria in relation to soil-fertility, 



151. 

 Bacterial leaf-spot, 266. 

 Bacterial shot-hole, 168, 266. 

 Bacteriosis, 266. 

 Bacterium pruni, 266 ; B. tumefaciens, 



272. 

 Bailey, L. H., mentioned, 3 ; quoted, 



101, 102. 

 Ballou, F. H., quoted, 317, 318. 

 Banking trees to prevent -winter 



injury, 321. 

 Barden, F. M., cited, 343. 

 Bark-beetle, 228, 231. 

 Basis of classification: adhesion of 



flesh, 382 ; regional, 384. 

 Baskets for picking fruit, 394. 

 Batchelor, L. D., cited, 311. 

 Bearing age for trees, 98. 

 Bedding pits, 52, 53. 

 Berckmans, P. J., mentioned, 384, 



385. 

 Bigelow. W. D., cited, 301. 

 Bitter clover, 140, 141. 

 Black peach-aphis, 233. 

 Black-spot, 266. 

 Blake. M. A., cited, 73, 74, 321; 



quoted, 200, 201. 



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