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INDEX 



Pear, insects attacking the, 157 



method of bearing fruit in, 121 

 packages for, 261 



psylla, 157 



slug, 159 

 Peas as a cover crop, 119 

 Phosphoric acid as a fertihzer, 103 



forms of, 103 

 Pickers, managing, 243 

 Picking and handhng fruit, 229 



equipment, 234 

 Pick, time to, apples, 237 

 cherry, 240 

 peach, 239 

 pear, 239 

 plum, 242 

 Plant food held by cover crops, 111 

 Planting boards, 49 

 Plowing in fall, 45 



under cover crop, 112 

 Plows for orchards, 91 



gang, 92 



types of, 92 

 Plum, method of bearing fruit in, 125 



packages for, 262 

 Pome fruits, diseases of, 165 

 Potash as a fertilizer, 102 



forms of, 104 

 Price of nursery stock, 42 

 Priest, L. F., fertilizer formula of, 



105 

 Printed matter in fruit packages, 



290 

 Prune, how to, 139 

 Pruning, 120 



bearing trees, 136 



general principles of, 126 



knife, 134 



old orchards, 216 



saws, 131 



shears, 133 



summer, 127 



time for, 137 



tools, 130 



young trees, 135 

 Psylla, pear, 157 



Quality in fruit, 29 



Quince, method of fruit-bearing in, 



125 

 Quincunx method of laying off 



orchard, 46 



Railroad worm, 154 

 Rape as a cover crop, 116 



Raspberries as a companion crop, 



75 

 Recipes for advertising, 294 

 Refrigerated storage, 253 

 Renovating old orchards, 212, 228 

 Rhode Island Greening, soils for 



the, 18 

 Rome Beauty, soils for the, 21 

 Roots protected by cover crop, 112 

 Roxbury Russet, soils for the, 22 

 Rust of apples, 167 

 Rye as a cover crop, 1 16 



San Jose scale, 144 



Saws for pruning, 131 



Scab of apple, 165 

 of peach 172 



Score card for apples packed in 

 barrels, 270 

 in boxes, 275 

 commercial variety of 



apples, 24 

 orchard site, 8 



Self-boiled lime-sulfur, 196 



Self-sterile varieties, 31 



Setting trees in fall, 53 



Shaw, Dr. J. K., quoted, 33 



Shears for pruning, 133 



Slope for orchards, 12 



Slug, pear, 159 



Snow, held by cover crop, 112 



Sod culture, 77 



advantages of, 78 



Soils for orchards, 9 



the Baldwin, 16 

 the Fall Pippin, 20 

 the Gravenstein, 21 

 the Greening, 18 

 the Grimes Golden, 20 

 the Hubbardston, 19 

 the Mcintosh, 20 

 the Northern Spy, 19 

 the Rome Beauty, 21 

 the Roxbury Russet, 22 

 the Tompkins King, 20 

 the Wagener, 20 

 varieties of apples, 15 



Soluble oils, 198 

 sulfur, 197 



Sooty blotch of apples, 169 



Southern-grown nurseiy stork, 39 



Soybeans as a cover crop, 118 



Spike-tooth harrow for orchards, 95 



Spray pumps, 176 



Sprayer, power, 180 



