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INDEX. 



Poisonous insecticides, 182. 

 Pound, description of, 54. 

 Preparation for planting, 84. 

 Prices received for pears, 12. 

 Production, of pear orchard, 12. 



of pears in California, 1917, 6. 

 Pruning, Chap. VIII, 90. 



fourth and fifth seasons, 94. 



mature trees, 95. 



second season, 92. 



third season, 93. 



tools, 100. 

 Pyrus calleryana, 137. 



communis as a stock, 136. 



communis, infection of pear blight 

 through water sprouts, 132. 



communis, leaf characteristics, 19. 



communis, root resistance to blight, 134. 



communis, seedling, 69. 



heterophylla, leaf, 18. 



ovoidea, 138, 139. 



pashia, 139. 



serotina, 136, 137. 



serotina as a stock, 66. 



serotina, blight resistant root, 134. 



serotina, leaf characteristics, 19. 



serotina, seedling, 69. 



simonii, 139. 



sinensis, 136. 



ussuriensis, 339. 



ussuriensis, description of, 136. 



ussuriensis, immune t'- ^ 1? ght, 135. 



variolosa, 138, 139. 



Quality of Varieties, table showing, 64. 

 Quince root, 68. 

 Rabbits, 88. 



control of, 170. 



Red-humped caterpillar, control, 164. 

 Red spiders, control, 169. 

 Reed, Hay ward, 146. 



Hay ward, piping system, 120. 

 Reimer, F. C., 107, 129, 135, 140. 



F. C., quoted, 138. 

 Repellants, 182. 

 Root grafts, 72. 

 Rossney, description of, 54. 

 Russeting, frost injury, 115. 

 San Jose scale, control, 163. ^ ' * - 

 Sawfly, California pear, control, 156. 

 Seckel, description of, 55. 

 Seedlings, 69. 



Serration of leaves, 18. > 



Setting and Caring for Young Trees, 



Chap. VII, 87. 

 Sheldon, description of, 55. 

 Shot hole borer, or fruit tree bark beetl3, 



control, 165. 

 Sierra Nevada Foothill and Mountain 



Region, 13. 

 Smith, H. S. f 169. 

 Soil Analysis, 84. 

 Soils ajid Their Preparation for Planting, 



Chap. VI, 82. 



Southern California Coast Region, pears 

 in, 12. 



Southern California Desert Region, 13. 



Souvenir, description of, 56. 



Spring cankerworm, control, 165. 



Sprayjng, cost of, 11. 



Spraying the Pear, Chap. XII, 118. 



Squirrels, control of, 171. 



Standard trees, 66. 



Stokes, Fred G., 178. 



Sulphur, as fertilizer, 107. 



house and balloons, 179. 



spray, 185. 



Sulphuring pears, 179. 

 Sun scald, 88. 

 Superfin, description of, 56. 

 Surprise, as stock, 140. 

 Swett, Frank T., 68, 181. 

 Systems for planting, 81. 

 Taft, L. R. Pears in Michigan, S. 

 Tanglefoot, 144. 

 Thinning, Picking and Packing, Chap. XV, 



172. 



Tools for blight cutting, 131. 

 Touraine, description of, 56. 

 Tree protectors, 88. 

 Trees, Stocks and Propagation, Chap. Ill, 



66. 

 Tufts, Warren P., 15. 



Bartlett self -fertility in CalL'ornia, 14. 

 Tyson, description of, 57. 

 Urbaniste, description of, 57. 

 Vanille, description of, 57. 

 Varieties, 14. 



description of, 20. 

 Vetch as cover crop, 106. 

 Vicar, description of, 57. 

 Vienne, description of, 58. 

 Volck, W. H., 98. 

 Waite, M. B., 129. 

 Watering the young tree, 88. 

 Watson, JT. R., 155. 

 Wax, asphaltum-parafflne, preparation of, 



99. 



Waxing grafts, 113. 

 Whale-oil soap spray, 185. 

 White Doyenne, description of, 59. 

 Whitewash, Bordeaux, preparation of, 99. 



formula, 188. 



Wilder Early, description of, 59. 

 William's Bon Chretien, description of, 22. 

 W'inter Bartlett, description of, 60. 

 Winter Nelis, compared with A. J. Cook 

 variety, 30. 



as stock, 111. 



cross pollinizing Bartletts, 15. 



description of, 60. 



leaf characteristics, 18. 



pollinizer for Bartlett, 16. 



prices for, 12. 

 Wisker, A. L., 15, 26, 29, 31, 87, 140. 



table showing blooming time of pears, 

 17. 



variety test block, 16. 

 Worcester, description of, 62. 

 Wounds, treatment of, 97. 

 Zoe, description of, 62. 



