GENERAL INDEX. 



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Abundance, character of 38 



Americana freestone 19 



hardihood of 19 



American plums for America, Qo£F 18 



Bees for pollinating 5a 



Blossoms : 



comparison of groups 37, 38 



in various locations 38 



infertile 34 



record of protected 39 



record of crosses 40 



sterile 47 



Botany of the plum, by Chas. E. Bessey 14 



Botanical relationships of cultivated sorts 41 



BradshavF plum 36 



Brown rot 34 



Budding 117 



Chabot, something about 27 



Classification 6 



of sexual affinities, Heideman 94 



Conspectus of cultivated and native plums 41 



Cracked plums " 128 



Crops under trees 57- 63 



Cross-fertilization 95 



Cross-pollination and f ruitf ulness 34 



in plums 35 



Crown rot ( Virginia experiment station) 128 



Curculio 3, 10, 11, 34, 54, 151 



and chickens 12 



to kill 12 



gathering the fruit and destroying 13 



machine for catching 12, 132 



one who fears not 56 



preventive 132 



remedy 131 



Commercial plum orchard 57 



Cultivation 6, 9 



Descriptive list 79- 86 



Diseases — other plum tree ( N. C.) 127 



Distance apart for planting 6, 56, 65, 88, 78, 121 



Dwarfing 9 



Elevation desirable 57 



Fertilizers 6, 10, 93 



Fertilizing barren trees 47 



Foreign species 41 



Four choice varieties 25 



Frost cracks, wrapping 121 



Fruit-tree bark-beetle, Kansas experiment station 134 



Graft in March 51 



Grafting 6, 9, 49, 115 



crown 6 



device 50 



new method 55 



side 50, 51, 118 



top 51 



waxed thread 50 



wax 51, 118 



(149) 



