Index 



419 



Handling fruit, care in, 397, 403. 



Handling nursery trees : when re- 

 ceived, 75; if dry, 77; if frozen, 

 76. 



Hardiness of tree, in relation to dor- 

 mancy, 320 ; in relation to variety, 

 320. 



Heaters for orchards: types of, 331 ; 

 number required, 332 ; lighting, 

 335. 



Heating orchards : equipment for, 

 333; fuel for, 331; methods of, 

 330 ; critical temperatures for, 334. 



Hedrick. U. P., cited, 125. 



Heeling in trees, 75, 76. 



Hester, L. R., cited, 277. 



Heterodera radicicola, 253. 



High-grade trees, growing of, 61. 



Holes for tree-planting, 84, 85. 



Honey-dew, 244. 



Honey race, 385; characteristics of, 

 390. 



Hume, H. Harold, cited, 384. 



Hydrocyanic acid gas, 239. 



Hydroscopic soil-moisture, 308. 



Idaho, varieties for, 359. 



Illinois, varieties for, 359. 



Implements, tillage, 108, 109, 110. 



Indian race (see Spanish race), 386. 



Indiana, varieties for, 360. 



Injury by low temperatures: to 

 buds, 314; to trees. 313. 



Insecticides : arsenate of lead, 284 ; 

 concentrated lime-sulfur mixture, 

 279 ; linseed oil emulsion, 283 ; 

 miacible oils, 282 ; nicotine sul- 

 fate, 283 ; tobacco extracts, 282. 



Insecticides, contact, 218. 



Insects: bark-beetle, 228, 231; 

 black-aphis, 233 ; brown-mite, 247 ; 

 bud-mite, 251 ; California peach- 

 tree borer, 227; curculio, 219; 

 fruit-tree bark-beetle, 228 ; green- 

 aphis, 235 ; lesser peach-tree borer, 

 225 ; oriental peach-moth, 249 ; 

 peach-lecanium, 242 ; peach-tree 

 bark-beetle, 231 ; peach tree- 



borer, 222 ; peach twig-borer, 232 ; 

 peach- worm. 232; red-spider, 248; 

 plum curculio, 219; San Jo86 

 scale, 236 ; saw-fly, 246 ; shot- 

 hole borer, 228 ; slug, 245 ; ter- 

 rapin scale, 242 ; twig-borer, 232 ; 

 West Indian peach-scale, 241 ; 

 white peach-scale, 241. 



Insects, dusting to control, 293 ; 

 two groups of, 218; chewing, 218; 

 sucking, 218. 



Inter-planted crop, defined. 111. 



Inter-planted crops, choice of, 124 ; 

 in relation to orchard-needs, 124. 



Introduction of peaches from Eng- 

 land, 4 ; from Spain, 4. 



Introduction of peaches into America, 

 4 ; into New England, 5. 



Inventory of varieties, 377. 



Iowa, varieties for, 361. 



Irrigation : amount of water to 

 apply, 311; determining need of, 

 309, 312; engineering features, 

 305; excessive use of, 310; num- 

 ber of applications, 311; systems 

 of, 306 ; tillage practices follow- 

 ing, 312; when to apply, 308. 



Italy, peach-production in, 21. 



Japan clover. 140, 141. 

 Japan, peach-production in, 22. 

 June budding, 59. 

 June drop, 300. 



Kansas, varieties for, 361. 

 Keffer, C. A., cited. 202. 

 Kentucky, varieties for, 362. 

 Kyle, E. J., cited, 72. 



Labor, locations with reference to, 35. 



La-speyresia molesta, 249. 



Laying down trees, 325, 328 ; plant- 

 ing with view to, 328; time re- 

 quired for, 328. 



Laying off the land, 81, 82. 83. 



Lead, arsenate of. 218, 284; use of 

 lime with, 284. 



Leading varieties, 374. 



