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INDEX 



Cuttings, tip, 126 

 Truncheons, 126 



D 



Digging nursery trees, 136 



Diseases preventing sale of nur- 

 sery stock, 154 



Dormant budding, 61 



Double working of nursery stock, 

 154 



Dwarfing nursery stock, 15G 



Fall treatment of seedlings, 46 

 Federal Horticultural Board, 166 

 Firmer for planting seedlings, 42 

 Freezing fruit seed, 28 

 Fumigation of nursery stock, 138 



G 



Gathering apple seed, 13 

 Gathering pear seed, 15 

 Germinating tree fruit seed, 21, 22 



Lath houses for, 22 



Seed beds for, 21 



Small seed for, 23 



Sphagnum moss method, 22 

 Grades of seedlings, 51, 52, 53 

 Grading nursery seedlings, 52 

 Grading nursery stock, 141 

 Grafting machines, 91 

 Grafting operations, 79 



Bark grafting in, 103 



Bridge grafting, 105 



Callusing, 89 



Chisel and mallet, for, 81 



Cions used for, 107 



Cleft grafting in, 96 



Grafting machines, 90, 91 



Grafting operations, inarching, 

 104 



Kinds of, 86 



Piece root or whole root grafts, 

 92 



Saws for, 81 



Shears for, 82 



Side grafting, 102 



Side whip graft, 93 



Theory of grafting, 85 



Tools used for, 79, 80 



Top working, 95 



Waxei for, 83 



Wax formula, 83, 94 



Waxing pot, 83 



Whip grafting, 86, 87 



Veneer grafting, 100 

 Growing tree fruit seedlings, 20 



H 



Handling large seed for germina- 

 tion, 27 



Handling small seed for germina- 

 tion, 23 



Hardiness in nursery stock, 162 

 Heading back nursery stock, 132 

 Horticultural novelties, 163 



I 



Inarching, 104 



Influence of stock on cion, 155 



Insects preventing sale of stock, 



166 

 Inspection of nurseries, 161 



June budding, 61 



K 



Kinds of grafts, 86 



