GENERAL INDEX. 



Advantages of fruit culture, 8. 

 Annual roots, 13. 

 Apex of fruits, 187. 

 Aphis, 153. 



how destroyed, 154. 

 Apple bark-louse, 154. 



how destroyed, 155. 

 Apples, 195. 



budding, 195. 



description of varieties, 206. 



dwarf, 142, 205. 



grafting old trees, 203. 



nursery, management of, 195. 



pruning, 202. 



root-grafting, 195. 



select list of, 480. 

 Apple-worm, description of, 153. 



remedy for, 153. 

 Apricots, 349. 



description of varieties, 350. 

 Axis of fruits, 187. 



Base of fruits, 187. 

 Biennial roots, 13. 

 Blackberries, culture of, 469. 



pruning, 469. 



Black-knot, remedy for, 166. 

 Blight, 163, 1 66. 



remedies for, 165. 



theories accounting for, 164. 

 Borers, description of, 151. 



how destroyed, 153. 

 Branches, 13. 



Budding, 18, 39, 40, 144. 



limits of, 42. 



modes of, 41. 



requisites for, 41. 



time for, 41, 145. 

 Buds, fruit, and flower, 13, 184. 



adventitious and latent, 15. 



artificial production of, 83. 



pruning away, 14. 



Calyx of flowers, 19. 

 Cambridge elm, 16. 

 Canker-worm, described, 155. 



remedy for, 156. 

 Canning fruit, 124. 

 Carbonic acid, its office in vegeta- 

 tion, 1 6. 

 Caterpillar, orchard, 150. 



remedy for, 151. 

 Cells, magnitude of, 12. 

 Cherries, culture of, 378. 



budding, 379. 



dwarf, 380. 



grafting, 379. 



pruning, 379. 



soil for, 379. 



when to plant the seed, 378. 

 Cherry-slug, how to repel, 157. 

 Cleft-grafting, 34. 

 Climate, changes wrought by, 205. 

 Cold-air houses, 129. 

 Collar of the plant, 12. 

 Corolla of flowers, 19. 



