622 



INDEX. 



Pulverization, admission of air to 



roots by, 150 



" experiments upon, 153 



" witli tlie spade, 154 



" do. do., effects of, 156 



" season for, 157 



" results of, 158 

 " prevention of drought 



by, 163 



Purchase, time for, of trees. 291 



Quince, soil for, 89 



Eadiation of heat, 87 



Kain, fall of, in wine districts, 39 



Kaspberry, soil for, 89 



" grub, 502 



" pruning of, 337 



Eed clover as a green manure, 194 



Ketentiou of moisture by soils, 67 



Ehode Island, fruits adapted to, 206-243 

 " " best 6 varieties of ap- 



ples for 100 trees, 246 

 " " best 12 do. do., 246 



" " best 20 do. do., 247 



" " best 6 varieties of 



pears on pear stock 

 for 100 trees, 247 



" " best 12 do. do., 247 



" " best 6 varieties of 



pears on quince for 

 100 trees, 247 



" " best 12 do. do., 247 



Einging of fruit, 353 



Boots of plants in undrained soil, 114 

 " do. do., drained soil, 115 



" length of, on dwarf pear trees, 145 

 " do. do., peach trees, 147 



" selective power of, 166 



" pruning, 341 



Eye as a green manure, 194 



Saccharine fermentation, 43 



Seed, selection of, from young trees, 395 

 (Seedlings, effect of pruning and trans- 

 planting upon, 415 

 " number of years before 



maturity, 416 



Selection, in raising new sorts, 391 



" of the tree, 272 



" indiscriminate, of varieties, 201 



Shelter on prairie lands, 



Silica, 



Snow, limbs broken by, 



Soda, sulphate of, 



" carbonate of, 



" phosphate of. 

 Sodium, chloride of. 

 Soils, disintegration of, 



" description of fertile, 



" galvanic power in, 



" properties of specific gravity, 



" affinity for moisture, 



" retention of moisture 



" absorption of moisture from the 

 air, 



" capillary attraction, 



" weight of, 



" shrinkage of, 



" state of division of, 



" absorption of oxygen, carbonic 

 acid, etc. by, 



" absorption and retention of 

 heat by, 



181 



32 



182 



182 



182 



182 



49 



51 



53 



65 



06 



67 



73 



heat of, depending upon color, 74 



" classification of, 



" adaptation of, 



" adapted to the apple, 



" drainage of, 



" sourness of, unpulverized, 



" temperature of, at different 



depths, 

 " temperature of, in different 



months, 

 " loosening of, 



" and position, influence of, upon 

 olfspriug, 

 Specific gravity, 

 Spurry as a green manure. 

 Stagnant air. 

 Staking limbs. 



Stigma, .season of sensitiveness of, 

 Storms, nature of, 



" snow. 

 Strawberry, soil for, 



" pruning of, 



" irrigation of, 



Sulphuric acid. 

 Sunshine, importance of. 



79 

 81 

 81 

 90 

 132 



161 



IGl 



346 



65 



194 



34 



355 



402 



29 



31 



89 



339 



341 



182 



305 



Thinning fruit, 351 



'J'ilc-pipe, cost of, 118 



Trellises for the vine, 330 



Training the peach and nectarine, 3H 



