INDEX. 



Tlie numbers refer to pages. Headings of sections and subsections are in bold- 

 face type. 



Aegeria excitiosa, 05. 



Accounts, keeping with pickers, 149. 



Acrobasis vnccini, 180. 



Aim to secure wholesale rates, 310. 



Almond, the, 119. 



Alternate bearing, 39. 



Amelanchier Canadensis, 180. 



American chestnut, 114. 



American gooseberry, 160. 



American red raspberry, 150. 



Anarsia lineatella, 170. 



Anisoptere.v, 50. 



Anihonomus quadrigibbus, 48. 



Anthracnose of bramble fruits, 156. 



Anthracnose of grape, 141, 143. 



Aphidoe on apple trees, 49. 



Apple blight, 58. 



Apple canker, 60. 



Apple curculio, 48. 



Apple, dwarf stocks for, 44. 



Apple-leaf crumpler, 51. 



Apple maggot, 48. 



Apple scab, 58. 



Apple, the, 40, .39. 



Apple-tree borers, 51, 52. 83. 



Apples, in bushel boxes, 62: influence of 

 conditions on, 63; picking and pack- 

 ing, 61; press for packing, 63; suitable 

 for cider, 196. 



Apricot, the, 97. 



Arm of grape, defined, 132. 



Ashes for orchard trees, 33. 



Aspidiotus injuring cranberries, 180. 



Anpidiotus perniciotyi. 54. 



Bailey, L. H., quoted, 94. 

 Balaninus, 123. 



Bark lice, preventive measures for, 54. 

 Bartlett pear self-sterile, 13. 

 Bigarreau cherry, 87. 



Bird cherry, 87, 89. 



Bird's-eye rot of apple, .59. 



Bitter rot of ajiple, 59. 



Blackberry, 150, 157; duration of plan- 

 tation of, 153; fruiting habit of, 1.52; 

 insects and diseases of, 155; picking 

 and packing, 154; planting, 151 ; prop- 

 agation of, 151; pruning, 153: soil 

 and culture, 152; trellising, 154; win- 

 ter protection of, 154. 



Blackcap raspberry, 150. 



Black currant, 160, 163. 



Black-headed cranberry worm, 179. 



Black knot of stone fruits, 84. 



Black rot of grape, 141. 



Black walnut, 117. 



Bladder plums, 85. 



Blight of apple and pear, 58. 



Blight, leaf, of pear, 73; of quince, 75. 



Blueberry, 181, 182 



Bone meal for orchard trees, 33. 



Book-keeping, 204. 



Books recoumieuded for further study, 

 212. 



Borers in fruit trees, 51, 52, 83. 



Borers in pecan trees, 113. 



Bramble fruits, the, 150. 



Brown rot of grape, 142. 



Bud, the unit of growth, 31. 



Budding the apple, 4;i, 44; the cherry, 

 89; the orange, 103. 



Buffalo berry, 181, 182. 



Buffalo currant. 160. 



Business niana;|!:einent of the fruit 

 plantation, 204. 



Butters, fruit, 196. 



Butternut, 117. 



Cacoecia, 50. 



Cane of grape, defined, 132. 



