Index. 



215 



gooseberry, 104: grape, 141; peach 

 95; pear, 71; raspberry, 155; straw- 

 berry, 170. 



Distance for planting the almond, 120; 

 apple, 44; blackberry, 151; chestnut, 

 IIG; currant, 160; dewberry, 151; 

 gooseberry, 160; hazel, 123; lemon. 

 106; orange, 104; peach, 93; pear, 70; 

 pecan, 112; plum, 87; quince, 75; rasp- 

 berry, 151; strawberry, 16"; walnut, 

 118. 



Domestic varieties, 7. 



Doucin stocks for apple, 44. 



Downy mildew of grape, 141, 142. 



Dried fruits, packing, 193. 



Drying fruits, 189, 190. 



Drooping methods of grape training, 

 133. \m. 



Drupe fruits, the, 75. 



Duke cherry, 87. 



Duration of plantation of bramble 

 fruits, 153; of strawberry, 169. 



Dwarf apples, 44; cherry, 88, 180, 181; 

 juneberry, 180, 182; pears, 69; Rocky 

 Mountain cherry, 181. 



Dwarf stocks for the apple, 44. 



Education required for fruit-growing, 1 . 

 Elecignus longipes, 181. 

 Emphytus maculatus, 171. 

 Employment and management of 



labor, the, 208. 

 English cherry, 87. 

 English gooseberry, 160. 

 Enghsh walnut, 117. 

 Entomosporium maculatum, 73. 

 Erythroneura vitis, 140. 

 European chestnut, 114. 

 European grape, 126. 

 European plum, 77. 

 European red raspberry, 150. 

 Eiithrips tritici, 171. 

 Evaporating fruit, 189, 190. 

 Exoascus deformans, 96; pruni, 85. 



Fall web-worm, 113. 



Ferment, vinegar, 198. 



Fertilizers, how to know if needed, 32. 



Fertilizing of orchards, 32. 



Filtration of cider, 198. 



Fire blight, 58, 72. 



Fire worm of cranberry, 179. 



Flat-headed apple-tree borer, 52, 83. 



Flooding the cranberry marsh, 178. 



Flower-buds of apple, 41. 



Foreman, qualifications of, 208. 



Four-lined leaf-bug, 163. 



Fragaria Chiloensis, 165. 



Frost, freedom from, what depends 

 on, 4. 



Frost grape, 126. 



Frost, protection of strawberries from, 

 169. 



Fruit, bearing alternate years, 39; com- 

 mercial outlets for, 205; damage to, 

 in picking, 14; defined, 1; preserva- 

 of, 185; selling to consumers, 205; to 

 dealers, 205; to commission mer- 

 chants, 206; shipping associations 

 for, 207; storage of, 16; thinning, M; 

 when and how should it be picked ? 

 14. 



Fruit basket, climax, 76. 



Fruit butters. 196. 



Fruit establishments, proximity to, de- 

 sirable, 6. 



Fruit evaporation, 190. 



Fruit growing, choice of location for, 

 3; commercial, defined, 1; success in 

 dependent on selection of varieties, 2, 

 7; education required for, 1; locations 

 for, outside of normal belt, 5; present 

 condition of, 1. 



Fruit jams, 195. 



Fruit jellies, 196. 



Fruit ladders, 35. 



Fruit marmalades, 195. 



Fruit packages, 13; grower's name 

 should be put on, 14; printed matter 

 in, 207; requisites to good, 13. 



Friiit rot of stone fruits, 83. 



Fruit spurs of apple, 41. 



Fruit worm of cranberry, 180. 



Fruitfulness, conditions affecting, 12. 



Fruiting habit of almond, 121); apple, 

 40; apricot, 97; blackberry, 152; 

 bramble fruits, 152; cherry, 88; chest- 



