518 



INDEX 



Baked-apple berry, 308. 

 Barberry, 508. 

 Basilarchia astyanax, 431. 

 Baskets, making, 35. 

 Bassareus mammifer, 281. 

 Bembecia marginata, 258. 

 Berberis Thunbergii, 509. 



— viilgaris, 509. 

 Berry-baskets, making, 35. 

 Berry-crate, directions for making, 32. 

 Berry-harvester, 74. 



Biston cognataria, 430. 

 Blackberries, 106, 219. 



— botanical affinities, 219. 



— distinguislied from dewberries, 241. 



— drying, 120. 



— duration of plantations, 123. 



— fertilizers for, 107. 



— forcing, 28. 



— hardiness of, 125. 



— harvesting and marketing, 119. 



— laying down in Hudson river valley, 



— leafy-cluster, 235. [23. 



— long-cluster, 226, 238. 



— medicinal qualities of, 121. 



— planting, 112. 



— profits of, 127. 



— propagating, 108. 



— pruning, 117. 



— recommended varieties, 240. 



— short-cluster, 232. 



— soil for, 106. 



— tillage and mulching, 115. 



— types of, 225. 



— uses of, 120. 



Blackberries, varieties of — Adair i 

 Claret, 237;Agawam, 233, 240; Al- j 

 bion, 237; Alger; 237; Allen, 227; | 

 Americus, 236: Ancient Briton, 227, ! 

 240; Bangor, 227; Banton, 227; i 

 Barnard, 227; Black Chief, 203; j 

 Bonanza, 227; Boston High Bush, i 

 236; Brandenburg, 228; Brunton 

 Early, 230; Cape May, 228; Carlo, 

 228 ; Cherry Valley, 228 ; Child's 

 Tree Blackberry, 240; Clark, 228; 



Colonel Wilder, 237; Crandall, 232; 

 Crystal White, 237; Cumberland, 

 228; Cut-leaved, 154; Cutter Mul- 

 berry, 228; Dallas, 228, 241; Dehring, 

 228; Doctor Warder, 237; Dodge 

 Thornless, 228; Dorchester, 224,236; 

 Duncan Falls, 228; Early Cluster, 

 225, 228, 240; Early Harvest, 236 

 240; Early King, 236; Eldorado, 229; 

 Erie, 233; Eureka, 238; Excelsior, 

 229; Farley, 229; Felton, 229; Ford 

 No. 1, 233; Freed, 229; Fruitland, 

 233; Gainor, 229; Grape, 229; Haley, 

 229; Hoag, 229, Holcomb, 229; Hoo- 

 sac Thornless, 230; Idaho Climbing, 

 230 ; Improved High Bush, 236 ; 

 Jordan, 230; Kentucky White, 237; 

 King, 236 ; Kittatinny, 233 ; Knox, 

 230 ; Lawton, 234 ; Lincoln, 230; 

 Lovett, 234; Luther, 230; Mammoth, 

 238; Mason Mountain, 230; Maxwell, 

 230. Maynard, 239 ; Mersereau, 234; 

 McCracken, 230 ; Minnewaski, 234, 

 241; Missouri Mammoth, 230; Moun- 

 tain Rose, 230; Needham White, 238; 

 Nevada, 231; Newman Tlioruless, 

 239; NewRochelle, 234; Ohmer, 231; 

 Orange's Crystal, 237; Ozark, 231; 

 Parish Pink, 238 ; Parnell, 231 ; 

 Parker Early, 231; Piazza, 231; 

 Rathbun, 239 ; Red Hybrid, 231 ; 

 Reyner, 231 ; Role Early, 231 ; Sable 

 Queen, 231; Sadie, 231; Sanford,234; 

 Seacor's Mammoth, 234; See Early, 

 230, Sinclair, 231; Snyder, 234. 240; 

 Stayman Early, 231; Stone Hardy, 

 234; Sterling Thornless, 239; Sue- 

 cess, 234; Taylor. 25, 231, 240; 

 Teeumseh, 231; Texas Early, 232; 

 Texas Hybrid, 238; Texas Pink 

 Hybrid, 238 ; Thompson's Early 

 Mammoth. 238; Topsy. 240; Truman 

 Thornless. 232; Uncle Tom, 233; 

 Wachusett, 232; Wallace, 232; Wap- 

 sie, 232; Warren, 232; Washington, 

 232; Western Triumph ,235; Weston, 



