GENERAL INDEX. 



Apex of fruits, 169, 

 Aphis, 147. 



how destroyed, 148. 

 Apples, 177. 



budding, 177. 



description of varieties, 188. 



grafting, 185. 



nursery management of, 177. 



pruning, 184. 



root-grafting, 177. 

 Apple bark-louse, 148. 



how destroyed, 149. 

 Apples, dwarf, 136, 187. 

 Apple-worm, description of, 147. 



remedy for, 147. 

 Apricots, 331. 



description of varieties, 332. 

 Axis of fruits, 169. 



Base of fruits, 169. 

 Blackberries, culture of, 427. 



pruning, 427. 



Black-knot, remedy for, 160. 

 Blight, 157, 160. 



remedies for, 159. 



theories accounting for, 1 58. 

 Borers, description of, 145. 



how destroyed, 147. 

 Budding, 18, 39, 40, 138. 



limits of, 42. 



modes of, 41. 



requisites for, 41. 



time for, 41, 139. 

 Buds, fruit and flower, 13, 166. 



adventitious and latent, 15. 



artificial production of, 81. 



pruning away, 14. 



Calyx of flowers, 19. 

 Canker-worm, described, 149. 



remedy for, 150. 

 Caterpillar, orchard, 144. 



remedy for, 145. 

 Cherries, culture of, 360. 



Cherries, budding, 361. 



dwarf, 362. 



grafting, 361. 



pruning, 361. 



soil for, 361. 



when to plant the seed, 360. 

 Cherry-slug, how to repel, 151. 

 Cleft-grafting, 34. 

 Climate, changes wrought by, 187. 

 Collar of the plant, 12 

 Corolla of flowers, 19. 

 Cultivation of fruit trees, 70, 138, 183. 



arrangement to facilitate, 76. 

 Curculio, description of, 152. 



apparatus for destroying, 153. 



remedies for, 153. 



swine for devouring, 155. 

 Currant, culture of, 426. 



pruning, 426. 

 Currant-worm, described, 156. 



mode of destroying, 157. 

 Cuttings, when and how to make, 28. 



Depredators, 186. 

 Enclosures, 49. 



Flea-beetle, how to destroy grape vine, 157. 



Flowers, parts of, 19. 



Fruit culture, advantages of, 7, 9. 



profits of, 8. 

 Fruit, forms of, 169. 



texture of, 173. 



flavor of, 174. 



quality of, 174. 



Fruit gardens, plans of, 77, 129, 130. 

 Fruit room, description of, 1 19. 

 Fruit trees, time required to bear, 8, 132. 



distances for planting, 68. 



digging, 140. 



implements for packing, 140. 



packing, 141. 



pruning, 78. 



renovating, 75. 



