632 INDEX. 



i*age 

 Frame for auriculas described, - - 489 



French beans, culture of, - 64, 79, 90, 99 



of forcing, - - 26, 35 



French mignon peach described, - - 303 



Frontinac grapes described, - - 297, 298 



Fruit Garden, introduction to the, - ^37 



Fruit-room, management of the, - 254, 258 



Fruits, the colour of, affected by the colour of soils, 170 



— of thinning stone, - 240, 244» 247 



— of gathering stone, method of, - 251 



— of gathering and storing orchard, - 257 



— kinds of,* for forcing, - - 294' 

 Fruit-tree borders, of the proper depth and breadth of, 150 



— how to form and prepare, - 151 

 Fruit trees, kinds of, enumerated, 161, 179, 295, 296 



302, 303 

 _ described, 164, 177, 295, 304 



— distance at v^hich to plant, - 177, 180 



— of planting, 185,206,208,211,258,259 



— of pruning and training, 187, 210, 212, 237, 



243, 248, 250, 253 



— of healing down stinted, - 214 



— — new planted, - 212 



— of watering new planted, - 219, 24S 



— of destroying insects on, 198, 225, .244, 24S, 



252, 254 

 Fruit-trees, of destroying canker on, - - 200 



— of grai'ting the branches of, - 216 



— of screening the blossoms of, - 218, 220 

 — ■ method of restoring health to, - 378 



Fuel, for the hot-house, of the best kind of, - 281 



Fumigation.-, how to perform on frnit-trees> - 226 



— — on bushes, - 227 



— — in the hot-house, 340, 373, 



374, 398 



