INDEX. 



Diseases, iii. 45 

 Enemies, iii. 45 

 Packing, iii. 328 

 Marketing, iii. 328 



o. 



ORCHARDS, i. 82 

 Plan of, i. 89 

 Renovating old, i. 90 

 ORCHARD HOUSES, iii. 244 

 The first, iii. 244 

 Construction, iii. 245 

 Lean-to, iii. 245 



Improved, iii. 246 

 Span-roofed, iii. 246 



A cheap, iii. 247 

 For private gardens, iii. 248 

 Amateurs, iii. 249 

 Ventilation by drain pipes, iii. 249 

 Culture in, iii. 249 



Peaches and Nectarines, iii. 250 



Mixed fruits, iii. 250 



Blackberries, iii. 251 



Crabs, iii. 251 



Bush fruits, iii. 251 



Arrangement, iii. 251 



Temperatures, iii. 251 



Soil, iii. 252 



Potting and re-potting, iii. 252 



Ventilating, iii. 253 



Syringing, iii. 254 

 ORANGES, iii. 46 

 Varieties, iii. 47 

 Propagation, iii. 48 

 Management, iii. 48 

 Compost, iii. 49 

 Mode of culture, iii. 49 

 Potting, iii. 50 

 Tubbing, iii. 50 

 Top-dressing, iii. 52 

 Training, iii. 52 

 Pruning, iii. 53 

 Temperatures, iii. 54 

 Watering, iii. 55 

 Feeding, iii. 55 

 Ripe fruit, iii. 55 

 Diseases, iii. 55 

 Enemies, iii. 56 



P. 



PACKING AND MARKETING FRUITS, iii. 



321 



Apples, iii. 321 

 Apricots, iii. 324 

 Cherries, iii. 324 

 Currants, iii. 325 

 Figs, iii. 325 

 Gooseberries, iii. 326 

 Grapes, iii. 326 

 Melons, iii. 328 

 Nuts, iii. 328 



Peaches and Nectarines, iii. 329 

 Pears, iii. 330 

 Pine-apples, iii. 331 

 Plums, iii. 331 

 Raspberries, iii. 332 



Strawberries, iii. 333 

 Sending by post, iii. 335 

 PRICES OF FRUITS, iii. 336 



Covent Garden Market, iii. 336 

 PEACHES AND NECTARINES, iii. 58 

 History, iii. 58 

 Varieties of Peaches, iii. 59 



Very early, iii. 59 



Second early, iii. 59 



Early mid-season, iii. 60 



Main mid-season, iii. 60 



Late, iii. 61 



Latest, iii. 61 



For a south wall, iii. 62 



For a cool house, iii. 62 



For a wall-case, iii. 63 



For forcing, iii. 63 

 Varieties of Nectarines, iii. 63 



Earliest, iii. 63 



Second early, iii. 64 



Mid-season, iii. 64 



Late, iii. 65 



For a south wall, iii. 65 



For a wall-case, iii. 65 



For an unheated house, iii. 65 



For forcing, iii. 66 

 Propagation, iii. 66 



Seeds, iii. 66 



Budding, iii. 66 



Grafting, iii. 66 

 Stocks, iii. 66 

 Out-door cultivation, iii. 67 



Wall aspects, iii. 67 



Soil, iii. 67 



Borders, iii. 68 

 Distances to plant, iii 69 



Planting, iii. 69 

 Training, iii. 70 



Cordon, iii. 70 



" U " shaped, iii. 71 



Fan, iii. 72 



Seymour's method, iii. 74 

 Mode of bearing, iii. 76 

 Pruning, iii. 77 



Long, iii. 77 



Winter, iii. 78 



Summer, iii. 80 

 Protecting the blossoms, iii. 81 

 Disbudding, iii. 81 

 Thinning, iii. 81 

 Routine management, iii. 82 



Syringing, iii. 82 



Mulching, iii. 83 



Manures, iii. 83 



Feeding, iii. 83 



Exposing the fruits, iii. 84 



Gathering, iii. 84 

 Cultivation under glass, iii. 85 



Structures, iii. 85 



Bush trees, iii. 86 



Pyramids, iii, 87 



Standards, iii. 87 



Pruning, iii. 88 



Cluster growths, iii. 90 



Routine work, iii. 92 



Resting period, iii. 92 



Flowering stage, iii. 92 



First swelling, iii. 94 



Storing, iii. 95 



Last swelling, iii. 95 



Ripening, iii, 96 



Forcing, iii. 96 



Structures, iii. 96 



Varieties, iii. 98 



Trees, iii. 98 



Arrangement, iii. 99 



Time of starting, iii. 100 



Temperatures, iii. 101 



Ventilation, iii. 101 



Casting buds, iii. 103 



Fruit not setting, iii. 103 

 Not stoning, iii. 103 

 Splitting, iii. 104 



Lifting trees, iii. 104 

 Diseases, iii. 105 



Canker, iii. 105 



Excrescences on roots, iii. 105 



Fungus, iii. 106 



Sunburn, iii. 106 



Blister, iii. 106 



Gum, iii. 107 



Mildew, iii. 107 



Spot, iii. 108 



Yellows, iii. 108 

 Enemies, iii. no 



Aphides, iii. no 



Brown Scale, iii. no 



Caterpillars, iii. no 



Red Spider, iii. no 



Thrips, iii. in 



Weevils, iii. in 



Ants, iii. in 



Earwigs, iii. in 



Woodlice, iii. ill 

 For sale, iii. 310 



In wall cases, iii. 310 



Forcing, iii. 316 

 Varieties, iii. 317 

 Management, iii. 317 

 Prices, iii. 317 



Packing, iii. 329 



Marketing, iii. 329 

 PEARS, iii. 112 

 History, iii. "2 

 Uses, iii. 113 

 Varieties, iii. 113 



For dessert, iii. 113 

 In order of ripening, iii. 120 

 Selections for quality, iii. 121 

 For various modes of culture, iii. 



122 



Baking and stewing, iii. 125 

 Propagation, iii. 126 



Seeds, iii. 126 



Cuttings, iii. 126 



Layers, iii. 126 



Budding, iii. 126 



Grafting, iii. 126 



Stocks, iii. 126 

 Soil, iii. 127 

 Situation, iii. 129 

 Planting, iii. 130 



Distances, iii. 130 

 Training, iii. 132 



Pyramids, iii. 132 



Bushes, iii. 132 



Columnar trees, iii. 132 



Fan-shaped, iii. 133 



Horizontal, iii. 135 



Toasting-fork, iii. 135 



Candelabra, iii. 136 



Palmette-Verrier, iii. 136 



