INDEX. 



American blight, 89 

 Aphides, destroying, 102, 103 

 Apples, bush tree, pruned and 

 bearing, 18 



precocious prodigies, 19 

 importance of, 67 



improvement in desirable, 67 



British and American, 67 



raising trees, 68 



stocks for, 68 



relative productiveness of, 68 



soil and situation for, 69 



purchasing trees, 70 



planting, 71 



right and wrong methods of 



planting, 72, 73, 74 

 root and branch pruning, 74, 



75 



, examples of, 76, 77 



shortening the branches, 78 



exhausting young trees, 78 



result of correct pruning, 79 



fruit and wood buds, 79, 80 



a good tree, 81 



value of crop of, 82 



summer, autumn, and winter 



pruning, 82, 83 

 reducing roots of luxuriant 



trees, 84 



good varieties, 84 



early bearers for bushes, 85, 86 



productive medium - sized 



standards, 86 



large orchard standards, 87 



for large collections, 88 



experimental plantations, 88 



new varieties, 89 



enemies and remedies, 89, 90 



smeared bauds for trees, 89 



Apricots, 105 



Arches for fruit trees, 106 



Bark, preventing abrasion of, 16 

 protecting from animals, 16 



Blackberries, American, 106 



Caterpillars, preventing and d* 



stroying, 55 



on apple trees, 89, 90 



Cherries, and birds, 104 



good varieties, 104 



Codlin moth and caterpillar, 89 



Cordon trees, 96 



Currants, value of, 56 



Red and white, pruned bush A 



57 



fruiting branch, 57 



summer and winter 



pruning, 58 



distances of branches, 59 



standards, 59 



standards, formation of, 



60, 61 



varieties, 62 



Black, value of crops, 63 



cuttings and suckers, 63 



character of bush, 64 



digging and manuring, 65 



old and young wood, 65 



lime and salt for, 65, 66 



enemies and remedies, 6ft 



Damsons, good varieties, 99 



Early bearing fruits, 22, 85 

 Examples to be followed : 



A farmer's, 5 



A widow's, 6 



A labourer's, 9 



A tradesman's, 10 



An allotment holder's, 11 



A landlord's, 12 



A society's, 13 



Fences for fruit trees, 16 

 Fowls in fruit gardens, 90 

 Fruit, as an adjunct to farm pro* 

 duce, 4 



