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 Pot-licrbs, gathering to dry, - - 100, 107 



Pruning apples and pears, - 187, 212, 239, 259 



— apricots, cherries and plums, 190, 212, 238, 259i 



— currants and gooseberries, 204', 210, 24'I, 260 

 -— figs, - - - 193, 212 



— nectarines and peaches, 194, 238, S90, 4-01, 437 

 — - orchard trees, - 201, 210, 212, 259 



— the roots of stinted fruit-trees, - 215 



— cucumbers and melons, 96, 366, 386, 396, 422, 



430 



— shrubs, - - 465, 483, 512 



— green-house plants, - 568, 583 

 Pumpkins, culture of, - • - 82 

 Purslane, culture of, - - - 5S 



Q. 



Quartering out the Kitchen Garden, method of, 22 



Queen pine-apple described, » - 305 



R. 



Radish, culture of, 30, 42, 56, 107, 120, 127, 131 



Raisin grapes described, - - 299 



Ranunculuses, of planting, - - 464, 526 



— of shading, » - 494 



— of taking up, - - 501, 510 

 Raspberries, kinds of, described, - - 183 



— of planting, - 183, 203, 210, 260 



— of pruning, - 205, 210, 241 



— of digging the ground among, - 210 

 Red Frontinac grape described, - - 298 

 Red Magdalen peach described,- - - 171 

 Red spider, how to destroy the, 233, 369, 374, 398, 401 

 Ribston pippin apple described, - - 165 

 Ridging up of ground, of the importance of, II, 13, 131, 



