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INDEX. 



Poisonous insecticides, 182. 

 Pound, description of, 54. 

 I'lejiaration for planting, 84. 

 Prices received for pears, 12. 

 Production, of pear orchard, 12. 



of pears in Califoi-nia, 1917, 6. 

 Pruning, Cliap. VIII, 90. 



fourth and fifth seasons, 94. 



mature trees, 95. 



second season, 92. 



third season, 93. 



tools, 100. 

 Pyrus caller yana, 137. 



communis as a stock, 136. 



communis, infection of pear blight 

 tlirougli water sprouts, 132. 



communis, leaf characteristics, 19. 



communis, root resistance to blight, 134. 



communis, seedling, 63. 



heterophyllu, leaf, IS. 



ovoidea, 138, 139. 



pashia, 139. 



scrotina, 136, 137. 



serotina as a stock, 66. 



serotina, blight resistant root, 134. 



serotina, leaf cliaracleristics, 19. 



serotina, st-edling, 69. 



simonii, 139. 



sinensis, 136. 



ussuriensis, 139. 



uss%(.riensis, description of, 136. 



ussuriensis, immune to bliglit, 135. 



variolosa, 138, 139. 

 Quality of Varieties, table sliowing, 64. 

 Quince root, 68. 

 Rabbits, 88. 



control of, 170. 

 Red-humped caterpillar, coniiol, 1G4. 

 Red spiders, contiol, 169. 

 Reed, Hay ward, 146. 



Hayward, piping system, 120. 

 Reimer, F. C, 107, 129, 135, 140. 



F. C, quoted, 138. 

 Repellants, 182. 

 Root grafts, 72. 

 Rossney, description of, 54. 

 Russeting, frost injury, 115. 

 San Jose scale, control, 163. 

 Sawfly, California pear, control, 156. 

 Seckel, description of, 55. 

 Seedlings, 69. 

 Serration of leaves, 18. 

 Setting and Caring for Young Trees, 



Cliap. VII. 87. 

 Sheldon, description of, 55. 

 Shot hole borer, or fruit tree bark beetle, 



control, 165. 

 Sierra Nevada Foothill and Mountain 



Region, 13. 

 Smith, H. S., 169. 

 Soil Analysis, 84. 

 Soils and Their Preparation for Planting, 



Chap. VI, 82. 

 Southern California Coast Region, pears 

 in, 12. 



Southern California Desert Region, 13. 

 Souvenir, description of, 56. 

 Spring cankerworm, control, 165. 

 Spiaj'ing, cost of, 11. 

 Spraying the Pear, Chap. XII, IIS. 

 Squirrels, control of, 171. 

 Standard trees, 66. 

 Stokes. Fred G., 178. 

 Sulphur, as fertilizer, 107. 

 house and balloons, 179. 

 spray, 185. 

 Sulphuring pears, 179. 

 Sun scald, 88. 

 Superfin, description of, 56. 

 Surprise, as stock, 140. 

 Swett, Frank T., 68, 181. 

 Systems for planting, 81. 

 Taft, L. R. — Pears in Michigan, S. 

 Tanglefoot, 144. 

 Thinning, Picking and Packing, Cliap. XV, 



172. 

 Tools for blight cutting, 131. 

 Touraine, description of, 56. 

 'J'ree protectors, 88. 

 Trees, Stocks and Propagati m. Chap. Ill, 



66. 

 Tufts, Warren P., 15. 



Bartlett .self-fertility in Cali ornia, 14. 

 Tyson, description of, 57. 

 Urbaniste, description of, 57. 

 Vanille, description of, 57. 

 Varieties, 14. 



description of, 20. 

 Vetch as cover crop, 106. 

 Vicar, description of, 57. 

 Vienne, description of, 58. 

 Volck, W. H., 98. 

 Waite, M. B., 129. 

 Watering the young tree, 88. 

 Watson, J. R., 155. 

 Wax, asphaltum-parafRne, preparation of, 



99. 

 Waxing grafts, 113. 

 ^Vhale-oil soap spray, 185. 

 Wliite Doyenne, description of, 59. 

 Wliitewash, Bordeaux, preparation of, 99. 



formula, 188. 

 Wilder Early, description of, 59. 

 William's Bon Chretien, description of, 22. 

 Winter Bartlett, description of, 60. 

 Winter Nells, compared with A. J. Cook 

 variety, 30. 



as stock, 111. 



cross pollinlzing Bartletts, 15. 



description of, 60. 



leaf characteristics, 18. 



pollinizer for Bartlett, 16. ' 



prices for, 12. 

 Wisker, A. L., 15, 26, 29, 31, 87, 140. 



table showing blooming time of pears, 

 17. 



variety test block, 16. 

 Worcester, description of,- 62. 

 Wounds, treatment of, 97. 

 Zoe, description of, 62. 



