General Index. 



509 



Pear, pruning, 238. 



training, 239. 



varieties of, 237. 

 Pears, budding, 236. 



description of varieties, 250. 



different forms of, 241. 



grafting, 296. 



leaf blight of, 234. 



propagation of, 234. 



raising seedlings, 235. 



wintering seedlings, 233. 

 Pistils of flowers, 20. 

 Plants, production of varieties, 22. 

 Plums, budding, 336. 



description of varieties, 337. 



grafting, 336. 



soil for, 337. 

 Preserving fruit by artificial means, 121. 



by canning, 121. 



by drying, 125. 

 Pruning, directions for, 84. 



fruitfulness affefted by, 81. 



form of trees given by, 82. 



principles and practice of, 78, 184. 



summer, 82. 



time for, 80. 



apple orchards in bearing, 91. 



the cherry, 94. 



dwarf-apples, 91. 



nursery trees, 83. 



old trees, 183. 



the plum, 91. 



the peach, 92. 



the quince, 95. 



roots, 95. 



single shoots, 83. 



tops of trees, 78. 



young trees, 78, 85. 

 Pyramids, 87. 



Rabbits, how to repel, 186. 

 Raspberries, propagation of, 432. 



pruning, 432. 



Root- grafting, 12, 36, 138. 

 Roots, parts of, 12. 

 Rose-bug, remedy for, 156. 

 Runners, 13. 



Seedlings, transplanting, 137. 



time for setting out, 138. 

 Seeds, apple, 134. 



cherry, 136. 



planting, 137. 



washer for apple, 135. 

 Select lists of fruits, 439. 

 Shoots, color of, 165. 



different kinds of, 164. 

 Shrubs, 13. 

 Soils, changes wrought by, 187. 



treatment of, 44, 70. 

 Stamens, 20. 



Stocks for fruit trees, 134. 

 Strawberries, cultivating, 411. 



description of varieties, 416. 



selecting varieties of, 414. 



transplanting, 412. 

 Suckers, 13, 32. 



Terms used in describing fruits, 164. 

 Thrips, remedy for, 157. 

 Transplanting, how done, 57, 183. 



preparing roots for, 60. 



preservation of roots for, 58. 



requisites for success in, 66. 



season for, 64. 



trees received from a distance for, 6j. 

 Trees, digging, 140. 



distances for planting, 68. 



implements for packing, 141 



leading principles of the growth of, 10 



process of growing, 16. 



packing, 140. 



pruning, 78. 



renovating, 75. 



saving mice-gnawed, 38. 



stem and branches of, 13. 



structure of, n. 



transplanting, 57. 



watering, 63. 



Vineyards, soil for, 392. 

 Whip-grafting, 33. 

 Yellows in the peach, 161. 



Saddle-grafting, 35. 



