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Basic slag-meal, for apples, 137, 143. 

 Baskets for fruits, 386. 

 Batchelor, on thinning apples, 246. 

 Beach, on sterility of grapes, 158, 159. 



on thinning apples, 244. 

 Bean, as cover-crop, 122, 123. 

 Bean, velvet, weight of seeds, 126. 

 Bearing wood, 232. 

 Beattie, on spraying, 330, 334. 

 Beechnut, 5. 

 Beetles, attacks by, 322. 

 Beggarweed, as cover-crop, 122, 123. 

 Bembecia marginata, 351. 

 Bennett, quoted, 93. 

 Berry bushes, fertilizers for, 149. 

 Berry-stands, 371. 

 Bertholletia excelsa, 6. 

 "Better Fruit," quoted, 406. 

 Birds, protection from, 289. 

 Blackberry, diseases of, 350. 



insects, 350. 



species of, 7. 

 Blackberries, distance for, 177. 



fertilizers for, 149. 



injury from frosts, 309. 



laying down, 257. 



on low lands, 53. 



picking, 365. 



thinning of, 249. 

 Black-knot, 18, 359. 

 Black leaf, as insecticide, 341. 

 Black-rot, 354. 

 Black-spot, 356. 

 Blake, quoted, 176, 197. 

 Blast, 352. 



Blight, 356, 357, 361. 

 Bliss, on pruning, 190, 234. 

 Blister-mite, 358. 

 Blodgett, on spraying, 330. 

 Blossoms, effect of rain on, 41. 



effect of wind on, 42. 

 Blueberry, species of, 7. 

 Bone-meal, for apples, 137, 143. 

 Booth, on lay-out of orchards, 207. 



on subsoil, 115. 



Bordeaux mixture for spraying, 331, 342. 

 Borers, 73, 294. 

 Botryosph&ria ribis, 353. 

 Box-packing fruits, 400. 

 Box-press, 403. 

 Bread-fruit, 4. 

 Breadstuffs, raising of, 9. 

 Brackett, G. B., quoted, 262. 

 Bramble fruits, diseases and insects 



of, 350 



Brazil-nut, 6. 

 Brown, storage, 420; packing, 400. 



Brown, Edgar, seedman's weights, 125. 

 Brown-rot, 351, 356. 

 Brown-tail moth, 346. 

 Bryobia pratensis, 357. 

 Buckwheat, as cover-crop, 118. 



seed to the acre, 124, 125. 

 Bud-moth, 346, 359. 

 Buffalo berry, 7. 

 Bush-fruits, definition of, 7. 

 Butternut, 5. 



Cabbage, as cover-crop, 122, 123. 

 Cabbage palmetto as windbreak, 63 

 Calocampa nupera, 352. 

 Canarium ovatum, 6. 

 Cane-blight, 353. 

 Cane-fruits, thinning of, 249. 

 Canker, 352. 

 Cankers, frost, 304. 



treatment for, 296. 

 Canker-worm, 57, 346, 347. 

 Caraunda, 7. 



Card, on thinning cane-fruits, 249 

 Carica Papaya, 6. 

 Carissa, species of, 7. 

 Carob, 5. 



Carpocapsa pomonetta, 347. 

 Carya, species of, 5. 

 Case-bearers, 347, 359. 

 Cashew, 5. 

 Casimiroa edulis, 4. 

 Castanea, species of, 5. 

 Catch-crops, 100. 

 Caterpillars, attacks by, 322. 

 Cavanaugh, soil analysis, 115. 

 Cedar-apple fungus, 57. 

 Ceratonia Siliqua, 5. 

 Cerinam, 8. 



Chsenomeles, species of, 3. 

 Chandler, on frost injury, 315. 



on injury to fruit-buds, 101. 



on stocks, 171. 



on winter-killing, 303. 

 Chemical fertilizers, 131. 

 Cherimoya, 4. 

 Cherries, distance for, 177. 



fertilizers for, 147. 



picking, 368. 



sterility of, 160. 

 Cherry, diseases of, 351. 



insects, 351. 



Mahaleb, as stock, 14. 



species of, 3. 



stocks for, 171-- 



Surinam, 4. 

 Chestnut, diseases and insects, 352. 



species of, 5. 



