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INDEX 



Brown, G. G., mentioned, 207 

 Browne, C. A., Jr., 12 

 Budding, 351, 352 

 Bud injury, 254 



scales as a protection, 268 



selection, 317 



sports, 320 

 Buds, advantage of position, 19 



adventitious-, 23 



axillary-, 23 



branch-, 21 



classification of, 21 



collateral, 24 



defined, 20 



flower-, 21 



fruit-, 21 



gross structure of, 20 



latent-, 23 



lateral-, 23 



leaf-, 21 



mixed-, 22 



simple-, 22 



terminal-, 23 



wood-, 21 

 Burbank, Luther, 316, 330 



Camerarius, J., 282 

 Canada, fruit-breeding in, 325 

 Canyons, effect on frost injury, 273 

 Carbohydrates, 54 



relation to flowering of plants, 56 

 Careless planting, 95 

 Carpellary system, 47 

 Castanea dentata, 136 

 Central leader tree, 77 

 Chance seedlings, 324 

 Chandler, W. H., 81 



mentioned 92, 93, 258, 260, 



264, 265 

 Changes in composition of peach 



during growth and ripening, 



14 

 Chemical changes in the growing 



apple, 10 

 nature of fruit soils, 134 



Cherry stocks, 340, 345 



Chesnut, V. K., quoted, 6 



Chimeras, 333 



Cion, 339 



Citrus, bud-variation of, 322 

 fruit-trees, 152 



Clay soU, 126 



Clean tillage, 143, 148 



Chmate defined, 218 

 effect on fruitfulness, 69 

 effect on development of fruit, 



243 

 effect on the floral structure, 



242 

 of United States, 228 



Chmatic provinces of United 

 States, 229 



Clonal-selection, 316 



Close, C. P., mentioned, 120 



Cluster base, 44 



Coates, Leonard, 321 



Coit, J. E., 332 



Colby, G. E., 4, 5, 9 



Cold storage, 357 



Collar-rot, 258 



Color of fruit, 211 



improved by thinning, 109 



Colver, C. W., 9 



Common salt as a fertilizer, 

 191 

 storage, 357 



Comparative morphology of fruits, 

 48 



Composition of apple fruit, 4 

 of apple leaves, 2 

 of apples at high elevations, 9 

 of apples at low elevation, 9 

 of apples in common storage, 12 

 of fruits on irrigated land, 9 

 of wood and leaves of apple, 1 

 of wood and leaves of peach, 1 

 of wood and leaves of pear, 1 



Continental chmates, 225 



Cooley, J. S., 367 



Cooper, Madison, 363 



