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Index. 



Orchard trees; bone meal for, 33; care 

 of young, 25; completing season's 

 growth, 26; planting of, 24; potash 

 for, 33; principles of pruning, 30; 

 wood ashes for, 33. 



Orchard work, harness for, 29. 



Organization of labor, 209. 



Outlook for commercial fruit grow- 

 ing, 2. 



Oyster-shell bark louse, 53. 



Package manufactories, proximity to 

 desirable, 6. 



Packages, fruit, 13. 



Packing apples, 61 ; bramble fruits, 154; 

 dried fruits, 193; fruits, 15; grape, 

 144; orange, 105; peach, 94; pears, 71; 

 small fruits, 148; stone fruits, 76. 



Packing houses, 15; location for, 16. 



Paradise stocks for apple, 44. 



Parasites and diseases, 11. 



Parasites of apple, 45; of chestnuts, 

 116; of orange, 105. 



Parasitic enemies of almond, 121; of 

 dwarf cherry, 181; of pecan, 113; of 

 plum, 81. 



Parties from whom to purchase plant- 

 ing stock, 8. 



Peach, the, 90. 



Peach, growing seedlings of, 93; on 

 plum stocks, 93. 



Peach-tree borer, 95. 



Pear, the, 67, 39. 



Pear, Bartlett, self -sterility of, 13. 



Pear bhght, 58. 

 ^ Pear, dwarf, 69; grafting the, 69. 



Pear-tree psylla, 71. 



Pear-tree slug, 72. 



Pear scab, 58. 



Petaii, the, 110. 



Peen-to peach, 90. 



Peionospera viiicola, 141. 



Persian walnut, 117. 



Phoxopteris comptana, 170. 



Phylloxera of grape, 139. 



Physis indigenella, 51. 



Pie cherry, 87. 



Picking apples, 61 ; the bramble fruits, 



154; the cherry, ?9; the cranberry, 

 179; the peach, 94; plums, 80; the 

 small fruits, 148; the stone fruits, 76. 

 Picking conveniences, .34. 

 Planting the almond, 120; blackberry, 

 151; bramble fruits, 151; cranberry, 

 177 ; dewberry, 151 ; grape, 130; orange 

 in orchard, 104; orchard trees, 24; 

 pecan, 112; raspberry, 151; straw- 

 berry, 167; procuring stock for, 8. 

 Plant lice on apple trees, 49. 

 Plom-ightia morbosa, 84. 

 Plnm, the. 77. 

 Plum, black knot of, 84. 

 Plum curculio, 81. 

 Plum gouger, 83. 

 Plum, grafting the, 86. 

 Plum, Marianna, 85. 

 Plum pockets, 85. 

 Plum, species cultivated in U. S. and 



Canada, 77, 

 Plum, stocks for, 85. 

 Plum stocks, peaches on, 93. 

 Plum, Wild-Goose, 78. 

 Plums, hybrid, 79; Nigra group of, 78; 



Miner group of, 79; rotting of, 83. 

 Podosphcera oxycmithce. 181. 

 PcBcilocapsus lineatus, 163. 

 Pollination, planting strawberries for, ' 



167. 

 Pome fruits, the, 39. 

 Pomelo, the, 107, 101. 

 Pomology defined, 1. 

 Potash for orchard trees, 33, 

 Powdery mildew of grape, 141, 142. 

 Preparing the almond for market, 120; 

 chestnuts for market, 116; cranberry 

 marshes for planting, 177. 

 Present condition of fruit growing,!; 



of nut culture, 109. 

 Preservation of fruit, 185. 

 Preserving fruits by canning, 194; by 



crystallization, 195; by drying, 190. 

 Pi'eserving fruit, methods of, 189. 

 Press for packing apples, 63. 

 Principles of pruning orchard trees, 30. 

 Printed matter in fruit packages, 207, 

 Procuring of supplies, the, 209. 



