INDEX. 



ADVANCE in remedies, 17. 

 Age to plant trees, 22. 

 Aphides, 69. 

 Apples, distances to plant, 53. 



dwarfs, 57. 



gathering, 56. 



insects injurious to, 57. 



keeping, 56. 



profit of, 48. 



pruning, 55. 



scraping. 55. 



varieties, 48. 



where to plant, 13. 



whitewashing, 55. 

 Apricots, 116. 

 Asparagus, 177. 



August planting of the straw- 

 berry, 168. 



Bark louse, 71. 

 Blackberries, 164. 

 Black knot, 115. 

 Blight of apple, 71. 



of pear, 89. 

 Bone meal, 32, 4-3. 

 Borers, apple, 62, 64, 71. 



cherry, 119. 



currant, 158. 



peach, 106. 



pear, 89. 



quince, 125. 

 Budding, 189. 



Canker-worm, 64. 

 Caterpillars, 60, 68. 

 Cherries, classes of, 118. 



dwarfs, 119. 



insects injurious to, 119. 



profit in, 20. 



Cherries, varieties of, 118. 



where to plant, 13. 

 Cider, 56. 



Clean culture, 28, 36. 

 Cleft grafting, 195. 

 Codling moth, 57. 

 Commercial fertilizers, 32, 42. 

 Condition of soil, 25. 

 Cracking of fruit, 91. 

 Curculio, 112. 

 Currant, cultivation of, 155. 



where to plant, 14. 

 Cuttings, propagating by, 183. 



Difficulties in fruit culture, 16. 

 Diseases of the apple, 71. 



grape, 151. 



peach, 106. 



pear, 90. 



plum, 115. 

 Distances to plant, 34. 



for dwarf apples, 57. 

 cherries, 119. 

 pears, 82. 

 Doncain stock, 57. 

 Drainage, 3, 28. 

 Dry rot of the grape, 154. 

 Dwarf apples, 57. 



cherries, 119. 



pears, 80. 



Elevated sites, 15, 93. 

 Exposure of roots, 24. 



Fall planting, 26. 

 Fall-web woYm, 68. 

 Fertilizers, 30, 42. 

 Fibrous roots, 23. . 

 Fig, cultivation of, 176. 



