350 



INDEX 



Planting trees with dynamite, 



57 

 Plums, 168 



Plums, curculio, 113, 159, 184 

 Plums, fillers, 45 

 Plums, marketing, 186 

 Plums, pockets, 181 

 Plums, pruning, 177 

 Plums, soil, 171 

 Plums, spraying, 186 

 Plums, stocks, 171 

 Plums, varieties, 278 

 Prince, Robert, 280 

 Propagating, 25, 151, 209 

 Prunes, 281 

 Pruning, 80 



Pruning, best time for, 97 

 Pruning, natural, 82 

 Pruning old trees, 94 

 Pruning peaches, 153 

 Pruning tools, 99 

 Pyrus malus, 228 



Ralls, 246 

 Rambo, 247 

 Raspberry, 210, 215 

 Red June, 247 

 Red June plum, 296 

 Reine Claude, 296 

 Republican, 317 

 Retailing apples, 143 

 Rome, 248 



Root interference, 153 

 Root rot, 55 

 Root systems, 26 

 Root worm, 203 

 Royal Ann, 317 

 Royal Duke, 317 

 Rust, 115 



Salwey, 276 



San Jose scale, 33, 106 



Scab, 114 



Scab, peach, 162 



Schmidt, 318 



Scurfy scale, 33-109 



Seedlings, 24 



Self-boiled lime sulphur, 164 



Selling apples, 142 



Selling orchards, 7 



Shot hole fungus, 181 



Small fruit, 207 



Small fruit, propagation of, 



209 

 Small fruit, soil for, 209 

 Sod mulch, 70 



Soil for cherry and plum, 171 

 Soil preparation, 48-51 

 Spraying, 102 

 Spraying peach, 164 

 Spray schedule, 121 

 Stayman, 249 

 Sterility of plum and cherry, 



177 

 Stocks, 24 



Stocks, plum and cherry, 171 

 Strawberry, 221 

 Strawberry packing, 223 

 Strawberry varieties, 224 

 St. Regis, 218 

 Stunted trees, 31 

 Sucking insects, 105 



Teaching pruning, 155 

 Thinning, 125 

 Triumph, 258 



Vergennes, 341 



Washed soil, 16 

 Water supply, 17 

 Wealthy, 250 

 White pine rust, 221 

 Wickson, 297 



