INDEX 



113 



Powders, application of 18 



Proprietary insecticides, 13 



Prussic acid, 39 



Psylia mali, 72 



Pupal stage of insects, 4 



Pyrethrum, ^'j 



Quassia, %"] 



Rabbits, 99 



Rain, effect of, on spraying, 14 

 Raspberries, pests of, 93 

 Raspberry beetle, 93 



,, stem-bud caterpillar, 94 

 Red spider, 7, 90 

 Root rot, white, ']'] 

 Rot, brown, ']'} 



Salt, 51 

 Sawflies, 4 

 Sawfly, apple, 71 

 cherry, ^^ 



,, gooseberry and currant, 83 



„ pear, 78 

 Scab, 74 

 Scale, 71 



,, gooseberry and currant, 83 



,, mussel, 71 



,, peach, 86 

 Shot-borers, 90 

 Silver leaf, 91 

 Slugworm, 78 

 Smudge fires, 103 

 Soap, 33, 50 



,, insecticidal action of, 7 

 Soaps, nature of, 50 

 Soda, carbonate, 31 



,, caustic, 31 

 Sodium chloride, 51 

 Soil, injectors for, 19 



Soil, treatment of, 8 

 Solar distillate, 43 

 Sparrows, 96 

 Spiders, 4, 7 

 Spraying, calendar, 104 



,, general remarks on, 1, 12 



,, machines, 16 



,, materials, 20 



, , need of specialising, 2, 6 



,, object of, 12 



,, summer, 6 



,, winter, 5 

 Starlings, 97 

 Strawberries, pests of, 94 

 Strawberry beetle, 94 

 Sulphides, 52 

 Sulphur, 7, 52 



,, and lime, 53 



Tent caterpillars, 69 

 Thrushes, 97 

 Tobacco, 57 



,, powder, 58 



Vapour ER moth, 88 

 Vegetable poisons, 7, 56 

 Vine mildew, powdery, 95 



Wasps, 92 



Weevil, apple blossom, 73 



,, nut, 85 

 White root rot, 77 

 Winter moth, 70 

 Winter washes, precautions with, 



18,31 

 Winter washing, 5, 30 

 Woburn wash, 33 

 Woolly aphis, 62 

 Wood leopard moth, %'] 



PROPER.!' UB?ARy 

 gi, C. Slate Collet 



