314; 



INDEX 



Pear, insects attacking the, 157 

 method of bearing fruit in, 120 

 packages for, 261 

 psylla, 157 

 slug, 159 



Peas as a cover crop, 118 

 Phosphoric acid as a fertilizer, 102 



forms of, 103 

 Pickers, managing, 243 

 Picking and handling fruit, 229 



equipment, 234 

 Pick, time to, apples, 237 

 cherry, 240 

 peach, 239 

 pear, 239 

 plum, 242 



Plant food held by cover crops, 109 

 Planting boards, 49 

 Plowing in fall, 45 



under cover crop, 111 

 Plows for orchards, 91 

 gang, 92 

 types of, 92 

 Plum, method of bearing fruit in, 124 



packages for, 262 

 Pome fruits, diseases of, 165 

 Potash as a fertilizer, 102 



forms of, 104 

 Price of nursery stock, 42 

 Priest, L. F., fertilizer formula of, 



105 

 Printed matter in fruit packages, 



209 



Prune, how to, 139 

 Pruning, 119 



bearing trees, 136 

 general principles of, 125 

 knife, 134 

 old orchards, 216 

 saws, 131 

 shears, 133 

 summer, 126 

 time for, 137 

 tools, 129 

 young trees, 135 

 Psylla, pear, 157 



Quality in fruit, 29 



Quince, method of fruit-bearing in, 



124 

 Quincunx method of laying off 



orchard, 46 



Railroad worm, 154 

 Rape as a cover crop, 115 



Raspberries as a companion crop, 



75 



Recipes for advertising, 294 

 Refrigerated storage, 253 

 Renovating old orchards, 212 

 Rhode Island Greening, soils for 



the, 18 



Rome Beauty, soils for the, 21 

 Roots protected by cover crop, 111 

 Roxbury Russet, soils for the, 22 

 Rust of apples, 167 

 Rye as a cover crop, 115 



San Jose" scale, 144 

 Saws for pruning, 131 

 Scab of apple, 165 



of peach 172 

 Score card for apples packed in 



barrels, 270 

 in boxes, 275 

 commercial variety of 



apples, 24 

 orchard site, 8 

 Self-boiled lime-sulfur, 196 

 Self-sterile varieties, 31 

 Setting trees in fall, 53 

 Shaw, Dr. J. K., quoted, 33 

 Shears for pruning, 133 

 Slope for orchards, 12 

 Slug, pear, 159 



Snow, held by cover crop, 111 

 Sod culture, 77 



advantages of, 78 

 Soils for orchards, 9 



the Baldwin, 16 

 the Fall Pippin, 20 

 the Gravenstein, 21 

 the Greening, 18 

 the Grimes Golden, 20 

 the Hubbardston, 19 

 the Mclntosh, 20 

 the Northern Spy, 19 

 the Rome Beauty, 21 

 the Roxbury Russet, 22 

 the Tompkins King, 20 

 varieties of apples, 15 

 Soluble oils, 198 



sulfur, 197 



Sooty blotch of apples, 169 

 Southern-grown nursery stock, 39 

 Soybeans as a cover crop, 117 

 Spike-tooth harrow for orchards, 



95 



Spray pumps, 176 

 Sprayer, power, 180 



