INDEX. 395 



Seed, peach, growing from, 37-3^ 



" pear, developing from, 206 



Seckel Pear, The, 239 



Seventeen year locust, the, 300 



Sha Lea Pear, The, 244 



Shapes of Pears, 226 



Sheldon Pear, The, 239 



Shellbarks, 377 



Shipping peaches to Europe, 201 



Slug, the, and its remedies, 286 

 Soil, the proper kind of, 43-4, 251 



Spanish Chestnut, the, 373 

 Standard Pear Tree, 213, 223 



Starvation of pear, 294 



State, the, its duly to fruit interests, 378 



Storage of pears, cold, 307 



Suet Lea Pear, 244 



Summer Doyenne Pear, The, 230 



Sugar Pear, The, 230 



Sun-dried fruit, 148 



T. 



Table of relative value of the varieties of the peach, 125 



Table of ripening of the leading varieties of peach, >22 



Tar paper as a protection against mice and rabbits, 105 



The peach, natural history of, 27 



Thrips, their destructive quahties, loi 

 Time and manner of planting the peach seed, 38-40, 45 



Time of ripening, table of, 122 



Tongue Grafting, 220 



