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Index. 



Shelter from prevailing winds, 4. 



Shepherdia argentia, 181. 



Shipping associations for fruit, 207. 



Shipping quality, 5. 



Shoot of grape defined, 132. 



Shot-hole fungus on almond, 121. 



Single-post method of grape training, 

 133. 



Sites for orchards, 20. 



Small fruits, the, 148. 



Sod in orchards, 28. 



Soil for ahnond, 120; apple, 43; black- 

 berry, 152; bramble fruits, 1.52; cherry, 

 88; chestnuts, 115; currant and goose- 

 berry, 100; dewberry, 152; grape, 126; 

 hazel, 122; orange, 104; peach, 93; 

 pear, 67; pecan. 111; plum, 87; quince, 

 75; raspberry, 152; stoue fiTiits, 70; 

 strawberry, 160. 



Soil, influence of, on character of ap- 

 ples, 64. 



Soil preparation for grape, 130; for 

 orchards, 21. 



Soil treatment for orchards, 26; for 

 pears, 68. 



Sour cherry, 87. 



Southern fox grape, 126. 



Sphaceloma ampelinum, 141. 



Sphoerella Fragarioe, 171. 



Sphoeria morbosa, 84. 



Sphoeropsis malonim, 60. 



SphcBrotheca castagnei, 172; ilois 

 uvoE, 165. 



Spraying, apparatus needed for, 12. 



Spraying for codling moth, 47. 



Spraying for fruit rot, 84. 



Spraying pumps, 12. 



Spur of grape, defined, 132. 



Standard fruit tree, defined, 68. 



Stock for planting, parties from whom 

 to purchase, 8; procuring, 8; time to 

 purchase, 9; locality where should 

 be purchased, 8. 



Stocks for the orange, 103; plum, 85. 



Stone or drupe fruits, the, 7.j. 



Stone fruits, cultivation for, 76; list of 

 cultivated, 75; picking and iiacking 

 the, 76; soil for, 7U. 



Storage and preservation of fruit, 



185. 



Storage, fruit may become moist in, 

 186: fruit may become moist when 

 removed from, 187. 



Storage houses, co-operative, 188. 



Storage, kind of, 187. 



Storage of fruits, 16. 



Storing the cranberry, 179. 



Strawberiy, the, 165. 



Strawberry crown-borer, 170; leaf- 

 blight, 171; leaf -roller, 170; mildew, 

 172; root-borer, 170; rust, 171; saw- 

 fly, 171; sunburn, 171. 



Success in commercial fruit growing, 

 what it depends on, 2; dependent on 

 selection of varieties, 7. 



Suggestions for laboratory work, 19, 

 38, 66, 100, 109, 125, 146, 159, 174, 184, 

 203, 211. 



Sulfuring fruits for di-yjng, 191. 



Summary of chapter I, 18; section 1, 

 chap. II, 36; section 2, chap. II, 64; 

 pear, quince and stone fruits, 98; 

 citrous fruits, 107; nuts, 123; the 

 grape, 145; bramble fruits, 158; gro- 

 sellesand strawberry, 172; cranberry 

 and miscellaneous bush fruits, 183; 

 chapter V, 201 ; chapter VI, 210. 



Summer grape, 126. 



Summer pruning, 31; the grape, 138. 



Sunburn of strawberry, 171. 



Supplies, methods for procuring, 210; 



needed on fruit plantation, 209. 

 Sweet cherry, 87. 

 Sweet orange, 101, 102. 



Taphrina pruni, 85. 



Tent caterpillar, 48. 



Teras vacciniivorana, 179. 



Tetranychus telarius, 121. 



Thinning fruit, 34; promotes annual 



bearing, 40. 

 Thrips injuring the strawberry, 171. 

 Tillage for orchai-ds, 28. 

 Time to purchase stock for planting, 9. 

 Tip worm of cranberry, 180. 

 Tobacco dust for woolly louse, 57. 



