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INDEX 



Emerson, R. A., mentioned 274 

 Entomophilous, 292 

 Essential oils, 6 

 Eutectic point, 264, 265 

 Explosives for tillage purposes, 177 

 Exposure for fruit-trees, 240 



Fall plowing of orchards, 177 

 Farley, A. J., quoted, 178 

 Fertility removed by fruit-trees, 



180 

 Fertilization, process of, 289 

 Fertilizer experiments, 193, 194, 

 198, 200, 202, 203, 205, 206, 

 207, 208, 209 

 Fertilizing the peach, 212 

 Fire danger in orchards, 147 

 Fisher, D. F., 367 

 Fletcher, S. W., quoted, 105, 293, 



306, 308 

 Flowering-branch, 43 

 Fortuitous nature of fruits, 311 

 Freezing point of sap, 93 

 French stock defined, 341 

 Frost-cracks, 259 

 Frost injury, character of, 223 



to fruits, 238 

 "Frozen to death," 261 

 Frozen trees, treatment of, 278 

 Fruiting of the apple, 26 



apricot, 33 



cherry, 31 



grape, 33 



peach, 29 



pear, 29 



plum, 32 



quince, 33 

 Fruiting system of tree, 78 

 Fruit juices, sugar-content of, 6 



production exhaustive, 104 



seeds for stock, handling of, 339 



soils of the Ozark region, 128 



soils of western New York, 129 



-spurs, 24; vitality of, 88 



-stocks, 339 



Fruit, wrapper, influence of, 363 

 Fulton, S. H., 367 



Garcia, F., 299 



mentioned, 121, 242 

 Gardner, V. R., 80, 85, 87, 299 



quoted, 68 

 Geographical distribution of fruits 



243 

 Gideon, Peter, 328 

 Gladwin, F. E., quoted, 281 

 Goff, E. S., 34, 42, 301 



quoted, 286 

 Goodspeed, W. E., quoted, 100 

 Gore, H. C. referred, to 115 

 Gould, H. P., quoted, 112, 116 

 Graft hybrids, 333 

 Grafting, 351 

 Grape breeding, 333 



hardiness of, 281 

 Grass mulch, 143, 145 

 Green, W. J., quoted, 104, 105 

 Greene, L. 365 

 Grossenbacher, J. G., mentioned, 



258, 259 

 Guides to horticultural practices, 



233 

 Gulf chmatic province, 231 



Hail, 224 



Hall, A. D., mentioned, 123 



Halsted, B. D., quoted, 270 



Hann, Juhus, 226, 227 



Hansen, N. E., 325, 329, 330, 338 



hybrids, 329 

 Hardiness of different tissues, 



262 

 Hardwood-ashes, 191, 203 

 Hardy fruits, 279 



securing, 278 

 Headden, W. P., mentioned, 259 

 Heading-back versus thinning-out, 



84 

 Heat units, 244 

 Hedrick, U. P., 68 



