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INDEX. 



Fire blight, 90. 

 Flat-headed borer, 64. 

 Forest tent caterpillar, 61. 

 Frosty sites, 15. 

 Fruit culture, advantage of, 11. 

 profit in, 18. 



Gooseberry, cultivation of, 158. 



varieties of, 159. 

 Grafting, 193. 

 Grape arbors, 138. 



borders, 140. 



cuttings, 185. 



distances, 137. 



dry rot, 154. 



fertilizers, 127. 



horizontal trellis, 136. 



insects injurious to, 146. 



layering, 189. 



mildew, 155. 



phylloxera, 146. 



pruning, 132. 



renewal system, 134. 



ringing, 140. 



soil for, 126. 



time to plant, 129. 



thinning, 140. 



training, 131. 



trellises, 131. 



under glass, 138. 



varieties, 141. 



Hedges for protection, 16. 

 Hermaphrodite strawberries, 



171. 



High culture, 12. 

 Hill-sides, 29. 

 Horizontal trellis, 136. 



Influence ofrural pursuits, 2. 

 Insects injurious to the apple, 

 57. 



cherry, 119. 



currant, 157. 



grape, 146. 



peach, 105. 



pear, 88. 



plum, 112. 



quince, 125. 



raspberry, 166. 



strawberry, 173. 

 Irrigation, 37. 



Kerosene emulsion, 67. 



Labels, 46. 

 Lawn, 4. 



seed for, 6. 



where to sow, 6. 

 Layering, 186. 

 Leaf blight of pear, 92. 



plum, 116. 



Location of garden, 13. 

 Low grounds, 14. 



Maggot of the apple, 60. 

 Mahaleb stocks, 119. 

 Manures, 30. 



cost of, 43. 



from the cow, 42. 



when to apply, 40. 

 May bug, 121. 

 Mazzard stocks, 117. 

 Mildew of the grape, 155. 



gooseberry, 158. 

 Mulching, 27. 

 Muriate of potash, 32, 43. 



for the peach, 107. 



Nectarines, 108. 



Overhanging fruit, 54. 

 Oyster-shell'louse, 70. 



Pastures for the apple, 29. 

 Peach, age of the, 95. 



borer, 106. 



diseases of, 106, 



fertilizer for, 95. 



insects injurious to, 105. 



on plum stocks, 94. 



pot culture of, 98. 



profit in, 20 



pruning of, 96. 



soil for, 93. 



varieties, 103. 

 Pear, diseases of, 90. 



dwarfs, 80. 



dwarfs, soil for, 84. 



insects injurious to, 88. 



picking the fruit, 88. 



profit in, 19. 



pruning, 85. 



ripening, 90. 



varieties, 74. 



