Index 



417 



Connecticut, varieties for, 357. 



Conotrachelus nenuphar, 219. 



Conservation of soil moisture, 103. 



Contact insecticides enumerated, 218. 



Cooperative associations, locations 

 with reference to, 35 ; value of, 

 393, 411. 



Corn, 146. 



Coryneum beijerinkii, 270. 



Coryneum-blight, 270. 



Cost factors in peach-growing, 338, 

 339 ; in Delaware, 343, 345 ; in 

 Michigan, 343. 



Cost of equipment, 342 ; fertilizers, 

 340; pruning, 340; spraying, 341 ; 

 thinning, 341 ; tillage, 340 ; worm- 

 ing, 341. 



Cover-crop, defined, 112. 



Cover-crops : different kinds enumer- 

 ated, 120; effects of, enumerated, 

 118, 119; inter-relationship of, 

 to tree roots, 125, 126; kind of, 

 124 ; variety of, 125 ; relation of, 

 to soil-condition, 117; snow held 

 by, 124 ; time of sowing, 121 ; 

 when not to use, 117, 119, 120, 146. 



Cowhorn turnips, 145. 



Cowpeas : planting, 127 ; varieties of, 

 128 ; immune to nematodes, 254. 



Crimson clover, 132. 



Critical temperatures, 334. 



Crown-gall, 272 ; danger from, 69. 



Cultural methods, effect of, on winter- 

 injury, 317. 



Curculio, plum, 219 ; in relation to 

 brown-rot, 257. 



Cutting twine following budding, 59. 



Cyanamid for nematodes, 254. 



Dates of rip>ening, conditions affect- 

 ing, 353. 



Deheading to renew tops, 212, 213 ; 

 reasons for, 211 ; limits of, 213. 



Delaware, varieties for, 358. 



Delaware experiment station, men- 

 tioned, 165. 



Department of agriculture, cited, 406. 



Description of races, 390. 



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Details of budding, 56, 57, 58. 



Details of packing, 403. 



Details of pruning shown, 189. 



Die-back, 274. 



Diseases : dusting to control, 293 ; 

 two groups of, 218. 



Diseases : bacterial leaf-spot, 226 ; 

 bacterial shot-hole, 226 ; bacteriosis, 

 22G; black-spot, 226; brown-rot, 

 255 ; California peach-blight, 270 ; 

 California yellows, 277 ; cory- 

 neum-blight, 270 ; crown-gall, 272 ; 

 die-back, 274 ; frosty-mildew, 268 ; 

 gummosis, 276 ; leaf -curl, 258 ; 

 leaf-blight, 265; leaf-spot, 265; 

 little-leaf, 277; little-peach, 262; 

 powdery-mildew, 268 ; root-rot, 

 275 ; rosette, 264 ; rust, 269 ; scab, 

 257 ; shot-hole, 265 ; yellows, 260. 



Distances between trees, 80. 



Distribution of crop with reference 

 to markets, 414; with reference 

 to over-production, 412 ; with refer- 

 ence to production centers, 412, 

 413. 



Distribution systems in irrigating, 

 306. 



Division of pomology, cited, 383. 



Dormancy in relation to hardiness, 

 320. 



Dormant budding, 61, 62; details 

 of, 62, 63. 



Dormant buds, planting, 95, 96. 



Downing, Charles, cited, 385 ; men- 

 tioned, 387. 



Drainage of soil, 39 ; importance of 

 in irrigation, 312. 



Drying peaches in California, 14 ; in 

 humid regions, 15 ; quantity pro- 

 duced, 15. 



Dusting to control insects and 

 diseases, 293. 



Dynamite in planting trees, 85 ; 

 work with, by New Jersey experi- 

 ment station, 87, 88. 



Early culture of peaches : in Canada, 

 9, 10 ; Georgia, 6 ; Maryland, 5, 



