Index 



429 



Pear roots, 97. 



species of, 3. 

 Pears, diseases of, 357. 



distance for, 177. 



fertilizers for, 144. 



insects, 357. 



picking, 367. 



sterile and fertile, 157. 



stock for, 170. 



temperatures injurious to, 314. 



trimming, 186. 

 Peas, as cover-crop, 123. 



seed to the acre, 124, 125. 



temperatures injurious to, 314. 



weight of seeds, 126. 

 Pecan, 5. 



diseases and insects, 359. 



distance for, 177. 

 Pedigree plants, 168. 

 Pereskia aculeata, 8. 

 Per sea gratissima, 6. 

 Persimmon, 5. 

 Phoenix dactylifera, 6. 

 Phosphoric acid, amount of, 131. 



for apples, 143. 

 Phyllanthus disticha, 6. 

 Phylloscelis atra, 352. 

 Phylloxera species, 386. 

 Physiological diseases, 323. 

 Pickett, on results of tillage, 71. 

 Picking fruits, 365. 

 Pili nut, 6. 

 Pineapple, 8. 



screening, 259. 



soil-adaptation, 13. 

 Pine-hole borer, 295. 

 Pistacio vera, 6. 

 Place for fruit-growing, 39. 

 Flanker, 90. 

 Plantain, 8. 



Plantation and productiveness, 287. 

 Plant-bug, four-striped, 354. 



-lice, 343. 



-lice, attacks by, 323. 

 Planting-board, 195. 



plan, 181. 

 Plants, securing of, 164. 



setting of, 174. 

 Plasmopara viticola, 354. 

 Plat of orchards, 221. 

 Plowing to save moisture, 84. 

 Plow, laying out with, 198. 

 Plowrightia morbosa, 359. 

 Plum buds, on peach, 14. 



domestica, soil-adaptation, 13. 



Jew, 5. 



Natal, 7. 



Plum, species of, 3. 

 Plums, diseases of, 359. 



distance for, 177. 



fertilizers for, 147. 



insects, 359. 



picking, 368. 



sterile and fertile, 158. 



stock for, 171. 



temperatures injurious to, 314. 



thinning of, 248. 



trimming, 187. 

 Podosphsera oxycanthae, 352. 

 Poisoning, arsenical, 361. 

 Polychrosis viteana, 355. 

 Pome, 2. 

 Pomegranate, 6. 

 Pomelo, 4. 



Pomology, definition of, 1. 

 Poncirus trifoliata, 4. 

 Pond-apple, 4. 

 Porthetria dispar, 348. 

 Potash, amount of, 131. 



for apples, 139, 143. 

 Powell, G. H., quoted, 281, 369. 

 Powell, George T., cover-crops, 115. 



on exporting apples, 394. 

 Power sprayer, 334. 

 Prediction of frost, 252. 

 Prickly pear, 8. 



Propagation and productiveness, 287. 

 Protection from frost, 251. 

 Proteopteryx deludana, 359. 

 Prunes, temperatures injurious to, 314. 

 Pruning, 184, 230. 



and productiveness, 287. 

 Prunus, species of, 3, 5. 

 Pseudomonas juglandis, 361. 

 Psidium Guajava, 4. 

 Psylla pyricola, 358. 

 Pteronus ribesii, 354. 

 Puddling, 184. 

 Pumps for spraying, 326. 

 Punica Granatum, 6. 

 Pyrus, species of, 3. 



Quince, diseases and insects, 360. 



distance for, 177. 



fertilizers for, 147. 



on low lands, 53. 



species of, 3. 



sterility of, 158. 

 Quincunx system, 192. 



Rabbits, protection from, 290. 

 Rain at blooming- time, 41. 



effect on setting of fruit, 317. 

 Rape, as cover-crop, 118, 122, 123, 124. 



