Index 



421 



New York, varieties for, 3GG. 



Nicotine extracts of tobacco, 218. 



Nicotine sulfate, use of, 283. 



Nitrogen, a plant-food element to 

 be supplied, 151 ; effect of, on dis- 

 ease, 1G8 ; effect of, on ripening of 

 fruit, 166; effect of, on size of 

 fruit, 170; effect of, on winter in- 

 jury, 320 ; furnished by legvuninous 

 crops, 124. 



Non-leguminous cover-crops, 120 ; 

 green-manure crops, 120. 



North Carolina, peach pits from, 

 50 ; varieties for, 367. 



North China race : characteristics 

 of, 391; history of, 387; typical 

 varieties of, 388. 



Number of trees to the acre, 80. 



Nursery methods, 61, 62. 



Nursery stock, growing of, a distinct 

 business, 47 ; fumigating, 239. 



Oats, 145. 



Objects of pruning stated, 177. 

 Oceania, peach-production in, 23. 

 Ohio experiment station mentioned, 



122, 127. 

 Ohio, varieties for, 368. 

 Oil for orchard heating, grades of, 



331 ; quantity required, 334 ; 



rate of burning, 333. 

 Oklahoma, varieties for, 368. 

 Onderdonk, Gilbert, cited, 383, 386; 



quoted, 387, 389. 

 Orchard equipment, enumerated, 



342 ; cost of, 342. 

 Orchard, first large, in Maryland, 



10. 

 Orchard heating, 329 ; equipment 



for, 333 ; does it pay, 335. 

 Orchard operations, inter-relation- 

 ship of, 97. 

 Oregon, varieties for, 368. 

 Organization for picking fruit, 394 ; 



for packing fruit, 399. 

 Oriental peach-moth, 249 ; relation 



of to codling-moth, 249. 

 Origin of the peach, 1, 2. 



Over-irrigation, effects of, 310. 

 Over-production in relation to dis- 

 tribution, 412. 



Pacific coast, adaptability of com- 

 mon vetch to, 131. 

 Packages, bracing of, in car, 409 ; 



description of, 399, 400 ; styles of, 



enumerated, 399. 

 Packing fruit : details of, 403 ; in 



the orchard, 397 ; in the packing- 

 house, 397 ; styles of, 403 ; tables 



for, 398. 

 Packing-houses, 397, 398 ; equipment 



for, 398 ; organization in, 399. 

 Paddock, Wendell, cited, 122, 310; 



quoted, 325. 

 Pamphilius persicus, 246. 

 Peach botany, 380. 

 Peach-lecanium, 242. 

 Peach-moth, 249. 

 Peach pits, sources of, for stocks, 49, 



50. 

 Peach-scab, 257. 

 Peach-tree bark-beetle, 231. 

 Peach-tree borer, 222. 

 Peach twig-borer, 232. 

 Peach-worm, 219, 232. 

 Peach yellows, cause of decline of 



peach industry, 11 ; with regard 



to propagation of trees, 55. 

 Peen-to race, characteristics of, 390 ; 



history of, 384 ; typical varieties 



of, 385. 

 Pennsylvania, varieties, 98, 99. 

 Persia, peach-production in, 23. 

 Persian race, characteristics of, 392 ; 



history of, 389 ; typical varieties, 



389. 

 Persica Icevis, 382 ; P. nucipersica, 



382; P. platycarpa, 382; P. 



platycarpa var. nucipersica, 382 ; 



P. vulgaris, 380, 381 ; P. vulgaris 



var. platycarpa, 382. 

 Personal equation, factor in success, 



24. 

 Peru, peach-production in, 20. 

 Philaotribus limituiris, 231. 



