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Index 



Rape, seed to the acre, 124, 125. 



weight of seeds, 126. 

 Raspberries, diseases of, 350. 



distance for, 177. 



fertilizers for, 149. 



insects, 350. 



laying down, 257. 



picking, 379. 



species of, 7. 



sterile and fertile, 457. 



thinning of, 249. 



treatment for borers, 295. 

 Records of orchards, 221. 



for picking, 381. 

 Rectangular system, 192. 

 Red bugs, 349. 

 Reddick, on diseases, 343. 



on fungicides, 336. 



on winter-killing, 302. 

 Red-rust, 57. 

 Red-spider, 357. 

 Renovating orchards, 283. 

 Rest-periods in relation to frost, 101. 

 Rhagoletis species, 345, 351. 

 Rhode Island Greening apple, table of 



points, 162. 

 Ribes, species of, 7. 

 Rigney, on frost-injury, 315. 

 Ringing trees, 277. 

 Roberts, on fertilizers, 131. 

 Rodents, protection from, 289. 

 Rollers and moisture-saving, 89. 

 Root-borer, 351, 360. 



gall, 350. 



treatment for, 298. 



knot, 17, 299. 



louse, 360. 



worm, 355. 

 Roots, broken, 228. 

 Rose-apple, 4. 

 Rose-chafer, 57, 356. 

 Rotation of plantations, 126. 

 Rows, making straight, 194. 

 Rubus, species of, 7. 

 Rusts, 351, 353, 360. 

 Rye, as cover-crop, 118, 123, 124. 



seed to the acre, 124, 125. 



San Jose scale, 349. 



Sapodilla, 5. 



Sapote, white, 4. 



Saw-fly, 351, 354, 355, 361. 



Scab, 356, 358. 



Scald, 352. 



Scale insects, attacks by, 323. 



Schizoneura lanigera, 350. 



Sclerotinia fructigena, 351, 356. 



Scraping trees, 276. 



Sea-grape, 6. 



Sears, clover as cover-crop, 120. 



on scoring apples, 161. 

 Selandria vitis, 355. 

 Self-sterile fruits, 156. 

 Septoria rubi, 350. 

 Setting-board, 196. 



of fruit, effect of rain on, 317. 



the plants, 174. 

 Shaddock, 4. 

 Shellbark hickory, 5. 

 Shepherdia argentea, 7. 

 Siphocoryne arena?, 343. 

 Site for fruit-growing, 39, 52. 

 Skinner irrigation system, 107. 

 Slug, 352, 355. 

 Small-fruits, care of, 229. 



definition of, 7. 



setting in an orchard, 216. 

 Smoke for frost, 263. 

 Smudges for frost, 263. 

 Snow, G. C., on storing grapes, 417. 

 Soaps, as insecticides, 338. 

 Sod-mulch in orchards, 69. 



orchards, 69. 

 Soil determinant, 13. 



moisture of, 81. 



-poisoning, 361. 



structure of, 77. 

 Sorting-tables, 412. 

 Sour-sop, 4. 

 Soybean, as cover-crop, 122, 123. 



seed to the acre, 124, 125. 



weight of seeds, 126. 

 Spanish lime, 6. 

 Span-worm, 353. 

 Speculation, 8. 

 Sphxrotheca mors-uvae, 354. 

 Sphinx, 355. 

 Spondias dulcis, 5. 

 Spraying, 319. 



for frost, 260. 

 Spray pumps, 326. 

 Square system, 192. 

 Squaring a field, 214. 

 Stable manure, 129. 

 Staking out orchards, 202. 



young trees, 273. 

 Standards vs. dwarfs, 167. 

 Star-apple, 5. 



Stewart, on fertilizing apples, 138, 143. 

 Stiger, Albert, mentioned, 261. 

 St. John's Bread, 5. 

 Stocks, 169. 



Stone-fruits, picking, 368. 

 Storage, 413. 



