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General Index. 



Grapes, packing, 113. 



pruning, 388. 



training, 384. 



transplanting, 384. 



trellis for, 385. 

 Green bark, 13, 19. 

 Growing, process of, 16. 

 Growth of trees, forms in, 165. 



Hedges for enclosures, 49. 



trimming, 51, 53. 

 Heeling-in trees, 65. 

 Hybrids, how produced, 24, 26. 



Implements, 97. 



Insects, destruction caused by, 144. 



aphis, 147. 



apple bark -louse, 148. 



apple- worm, 147. 



borer, 145. 



canker-worm, 149. 



caterpillar, 144. 



cherry-slug, 151. 



curculio, 152. 



currant-worm, 156. 



grape-vine flea beetle, 157. 



peach-worm, 150. 



rose -bug, 156. 



thrips, 157. 



Keeping fruit, requisites for, 117. 

 plan of room for, 119. 

 apples, 1 1 8. 

 grapes, 119. 

 pears, 118. 



Labels, 103. 



Ladders for picking fruit, 101. 

 Lakes and rivers, influence of, 48. 

 Layering grapes,. 377. 

 Laying out orchards, 55. 

 Layers, how made, 30. 

 Leaves, color of, 167. 

 forms of, 1 66. 



Leaves, functions of, 16. 

 parts of, 15, 166. 

 Liber or inner bark, 13. 



Manures, how to use, 45, 76. 

 Mice-gnawed trees, 38. 

 Mildew of the gooseberry, 162. 



of the grape, 163. 

 Monthly calendar of work, 485. 

 Mulching, 64. 



Nectarines, culture of, 302, 328. 



description of varieties, 328. 

 Nurseries, laying out, 134. 



management of, 1 33. 



seeds and stocks of, 134. 



soil for, 133. 



shelter for, 134. 



Orange, culture and varieties, 450. 

 Orchardist's hook, 99. 

 Orchards, cultivating, 75. 



laying out, 55, 182. 



management of, 76. 



preparing ground for, 54. 



registering, 68. 



when to manure, 76. 



Packing fruit, in. 



implements used in, 112. 



apples, 112. 



grapes, 112. 



pears, 112. 



strawberries and small fruits, 



US- 

 trees, 140. 



Peach-mildew, remedy for, 162. 

 Peach trees, winter protection for, 



3. 



worm, how to destroy, 150. 

 Peaches, remarks on, 302. 

 budding, 304. 



description of varieties, 312. 

 plum stocks for, 305. 



