203 



Picking Sack— " Glewston Fruit Farm " ... 69 



Piecework — Prices on Fruit Farms 176 



Pigs in Orchards sometimes Beneficial 162 



Plan of Planting 30 



Planting Board 28, 29, 97 



Planting Fruit Trees 4, 10, 12, 27, 29, 98 



Planting on Square, Triangle or Quincunx 29 

 Ploughing and Plough for Fruit Plan- 

 tations 24, 25 



Plum 57-60 



Thinning 71 



Packing 69, 166, 167 



Plum, History of Some of the Best Known 



Sorts ..: 142, 144 



Plum, Cost of Planting 59 



Plums, Insects and Diseases of ... 42, 50, 51, 58 

 63. 82, 119. 120. 121, 125, 126, 130. 132 



Plum, Life of 59 



Plum, Manures for 94 



Plums, Specially Suitable for Canning 59 



Plum Varieties 57 



Order of Flowering 58 



Whether Self-Fertile or Self-Sterile 142, 144 



Pneumatic Sprayers 76-80 



Potash (Caustic) for Cleaning Bark 133 



Pollination and Fertilisation of the Various 



Fruit Blossoms 57, 58, 156, 166 



Power-spraying Machinery 77 



Preparation of Land for Fruit Planting 4 



Price of Gooseberry and Currant Bushes 42 



Price of Fruit 33, 41 



Price of Land for Fruit Farming 195 



Protection of Useful Birds, Lessening of 



Destructive Birds 103-9 



Pruning Implements 96, 97, 98 



Pruning of Various Fruits 96 



Pruning, Principles to be Remembered in 96, 111 



Psylla or Apple Sucker 50, 125, 127 



Public Health Act, 1875, in relation to 



Rating of Fruit Land 18 



Pumps for Spraying 85-88 



Pupil. Cost of bemg a Pupil on a Good 



Fruit Farm 195 



Quassia and Soft Soap 

 Quit Rent 



Raspberry, Field Cultivation of 34-36. 42. 69. 



94, 95, 96, 166, 167 

 Raspberry Beetle (Byturus tomentosusj on 



Loganberry 45 



Raspberry, Stem Bud Caterpillar 132 



Rating of Fruit and Market Garden Land... 17 

 Rating of Glasshouses under Public Health 



Act and under Agricultural Rates Act 18 



Record or Map of Planting 30 



Red Currant 38, 39, 42. 69. 96 



Red Oil. the great Australian Insecticide... 112 

 Red Spider on Apple, Plum and Gooseberry 



Leaves 132 



Reversion in Black Currants 161 



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Regrafting, Unsuccessful Varieties and Old 



Trees 163-4, 192 



Ringing Fruit Trees to bring them into 



Bearing 194 



Sawfly, Larvfe on Gooseberry Foliage... 128-132 



Sawfly Maggot in Apples 51, 127 



Sciences Bearing on Fruit Growing 2 



Selection of a Farm for Fruit Growing ... 7-9, 20 



SeH-boiled Lime and Sulphur 82 



Self-fertile and Self-sterile Fruits 57, 58, 156, 157 

 Self-moving Motor Spraying Apparatus 76, 80 



Setting Out Land for Planting 27-30 



Sheep, the Best Graziers for Grass Orchards 61 



Shelter 7, 20, 21 



Shooting Licence, Rights 18 



Silver Leaf in Plums and Apples (Stereum 



purpnreum) 49, 121 



Situation of Fruit Farm 7, 20 



Smaller Packages 69 



Soft Soap and Quassia 50 



Sod and Mulch System 26 



Soil Cultivation 23 



Soil Fumigation with Disulphide of Carbon 

 Soil, Site and Shelter for Fruit Planta- 

 tions 19-20, 99-100 



Spraying by Pipes Laid Under or on 



Ground 49, 77, 85, 86 



Spraying Calendar 50, 133, 134 



Spraying Machinery and Appliances 76-80, 112 



Spraying Machinery, Care of 77 



Spraying Maxims 193 



Spraving, Quantity of Spray Used per 



Acre ■; 51, 195 



Cost of Spray 193 



Standard Sizes of Apples for Packing 167-172 



Storage of Fruit 52 



Strawberry, Field Cultivation of 31-33 



42, 69, 93, 96 



Packing 165-6 



Strawberry Beetles (chafer grubs) 32 



Strawberry Mildew 32 



Strawberries after Woodland 31 



Sulphur for Strawberry Leaf Mildew 32 



Summer Washes for Insects and Fungi ... 133 

 Syringes for Spraying Bushes and Trees ... 76 



Tenants' Fixtures 17 



Thinning Apples and Plums 71 



Tilth, Importance of, in resisting Drought... 51 



Tithes Act of 1836 190 



Tobacco Leaves for Aphides and Apple 



Sucker 50, 58, 63 



Tools Required for Adjusting Spraying 



Apparatus 80 



Training of the Fruit Farmer 1 



Trespass and Damage to Crops and Trees ... 18 



Uncertainty of Legal Position of Tenant 



who Plants 15 



