INDEX 



AcETO-ARSEXiTES of Copper, 20 



Air-drainage, 1 01 



American blight, 62 



Ants' nests, destruction of, 25 



Aphis, apple, 64 



,, blossom and leaf, 66 



,, cherry, yS 



, , currant, 79 



,, hop-damson, 89 



,, plum, leaf-curling, 88 



,, plum, mealy, 89 



,, rosy leaf, 65 



,, woolly, 62 

 Apple, aphis, 64 



,, blossom weevil, 73 



,, mildew, 76 



,, pests, 62 



,, sawfly, 71 



,, sucker, 72 

 Appliances for spraying, 16 

 Arsenate paste, 23 

 Arsenate of calcium (lime), 24 

 ,, lead, 22 



,, soda, 22 



Arsenical washes, 7, 20 

 Arsenite of calcium (lime), 21 



Beetle, raspberry, 93 



,, strawberry, 94 



Beetles, 4 



Big-bud of currants, 80 

 Birds, damage by, 96 



,, wild, protection Acts, 98 

 Black fly, 78 



Blossoming, delaying of, 39 

 Bluestone (blue vitriol^, 26 

 Bordeaux emulsion, 28, 29 



,, mixture, 26, 27 



Brown rot of fruit, 77 

 Bullfinches, 98 



Calcium arsenate, 24 



,, arsenites, 21 



,, sulphides, 53 



Calendar of spraying, 104 

 California wash, 53 

 Canker, 74 

 Caterpillars, 5 



,, false, 5 



Carbolic acid, 24 

 Carbon disulphide, 24 

 Caustic potash, 32 



,, soda, 31 



,, washes, 18, 30 

 Cherries, pests of, y8 

 Cherry leaf-scorch, 79 



,, sawfly, 78 

 Chrysalis stage of insects, 4 

 Cockchafers, 94 

 Codling moth, 66 

 Common vapourer moth, 88 

 Copper basic sulphate, 25, 27,29 



,, carbonate, 26 



,, compounds, 25 



,, sulphate, 26 

 Copperas, 42 

 Capram, 26 

 Currant gall mite, 80 



,, pests of, 79 



,, shoot and fruit moth, 80 

 Cyanide of potassium, 40 

 ,, sodium, 40 



Emulsions, relative merit of 



various, 49, 61 

 Emulsions, with copper, 28 



