594 GENERAL INDEX 



Seedlings, to raise, 5. 



Sea Air, its effects on fruit-trees, 555. 



Shaddock, 545. 



Shellac, composition for wounds in trees, 32. 



Short.ening-in, mode of pruning the peach, 458. 



Smells, their power of driving away insects, 53. 



Soil, the best for fruit-trees, 48 ; gravelly loam, sandy loam, clayey loam, 

 49 ; its effect on the health of the trees, 49. 



Soft-Soap, for the stems of fruit-trees, 560. 



Species of Fruit-Trees, 3 ; reproduce themselves, 3. 



Slug-worm on the Pear, 328. 



Spurring-in, training the vine, 221. 



Stools, for propagation, 29. 



Stocks, for grafting on, 13; their influence on the graft, 24; bad ones cause 

 the decay of varieties, 553. 



Strawberry, its history and uses, 520 ; propagation and soil for, 521 ; cul- 

 ture in rows and in strips, 522 ; fertile and barren plants of, 523 

 varieties, 525; selections of choice sorts, 536. 



Taking-up trees, 42. 



Thorn, the, as stocks for the pear, 320. 



Tobacco-water, for insects, 54. 



Toads, destroyers of insects, 56. 



Transplanting, directions for, 41 ; preparing places for, 43. 



Training, general remarks on, 35 ; its objects, 36 ; conical standards, and 

 quenouille training, 36 ; fan training, 38 ; horizontal, 40 ; renewal 

 of grapes, 221. 



Vallies, effects of, 50. 



Varieties, to produce new, 3; their tendency to change, 4 ; do not pro- 

 duce the same, 4 ; influence of grafting on, 4 ; Van Mons' mode of 

 raising new, 5 ; raising new, by crop breeding, 9 ; propagation of, 

 12 ; remarks on the duration of, 551 ; Knight's theory on the de- 

 cay of, 552 ; effects of climate on, 555 ; to restore decayed, 558. 



Vine, grafting the, 18 ; culture of, 221. 



Vinery, cheap mode of building, 222; for fire heat, 226; diary of culture 

 in the, 228. 



Vineyard Culture, 250. 



Wash for the Stems of Fruit-Trees, 560. 



Water Melon, its uses, culture, and varieties, 541. 



Whale oil soap, to destroy insects, 54. 



Yellows, a disease of the Peach, 462 ; its symptoms, 462; its cause, 453; 

 remedy for, 467. 



