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INDEX 



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Par twigs, swellings on 178 



Pear-blight 122 



Pears, dwarfs 271 



Pentosaiis 179 



Persimmon, fruit-bearing 75 



Philips, A. J., quoted 146 



Physiology of pruning .' 13 



Pine, girdled 117 



Plains, pruning on the .144, 185, 199 



Plashing 334 



Plugging cavities 124 



Plum, fruit-spur 4G, 74 



-headed-in 195 



pruning and references 320 



root-pruning 247 



Polyporus sulphureus 94 



Pome-fruits 189 



Poplars, fruit-bearing 71 



Positions of fruit-buds 74 



Post training 488 



Pots, trees in 374 



Powell, quoted 313 



Prairie Farmer, quoted 418 



Price, R. H., quoted 236 



Principles of pruning 133 



Prunus serotina, wound on 94 



Punk-fungus 94 



Pyramids 34L>, 356 



Quince, fruit-bearing 60, 75 



pruning and references 322 



Raffia 426 



Raspberry, fruit-bearing 64, 75 



pruning 323 



Reasons for pruning 135 



Reducing sugar 179 



Reid, E. W., quoted 306 



Rejuvenating trees 139 



Renewal, defined 410 



Rhododendron 340 



Ringing 17,281 



Rivers, on pot l re<>s 382 



on pyramids 358 



on root-pruning 230 



Robbers 155 



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Root-pruning 138, 227 



Rose, flower-bearing 67 



Roses, pruning 137, 336, 340 



Rural New-Yorker, quoted.. 121, 307 



Sargent, C. S., quoted 100 



Saws 300 



Scaffold limbs 204 



Schizophyllum commune 94 



Scraping trees 121 



Season for pruning 181 



Shade trees, pruning 333 



Shaping the top 222 



Shears 298,301 



Shellac for wounds 109 



Shoot, defined 404 



Shredding 167 



Shrubs, pruning 195, 335 



Snow, Gee. C 402 



Snowball 340 



Sorauer, quoted 154, 182 



Spencer, John W. . .402, 424, 428, 434 



Spirea, pruning 336, 340 



Splitting of trunks 122 



Spur 30 et seq. 



defined 410 



Standard 342 



Starch in twigs 179 



Starnes, H. N., quoted 402, 486 



Stone-fruits 189 



Straw, for tying 428 



Strawberry, trimming 304 



Street trees, injuries to 129 



Stringf ellow system 236 



Stripping vines 414 



Stub-root pruning 236 



Subsequent treatment 250 



Suckers 155 



Sugar, reducing 179 



Sulfate of iron 344, 347 



Summer pruning 140, 181 



Sun-scald 122, 185 



Tallow for wounds 109 



Tamarisk 338, 340 



Tap-hole 85 



