INDEX. 



205 



Planting, 25. 

 Plum curculio, 112. 

 Plum, diseases of, 115. 



insects injurious to, 112. 



soil for, 110. 



stocks for, 110. 



varieties, 111. 

 Potash, 32. 



Pot culture of the peach, 98. 

 Preparing the land, 28. 

 Procuring trees, 22. 

 Profit of fruit culture, 18. 

 Propagation by budding, 189. 



cuttings*, 183. 



division, 183. 



grafting, 193. 



layering, 186. 



seeds, 180. 

 Pruning, 85, 96. 

 Pruning knife, 37. 

 Pruning roots, 42. 

 Pump, 37. 



Quince, cultivation of, 123. 



Raspberry, cultivation of, 160. 



diseases and insects, 166. 



profit in, 19. 



pruning, 162. 

 Rhubarb, 176. 

 Roadway?, 7. 

 Rocky hill-sides, 29. 

 Root 'aphis, 69. 



Root pruning, 24. 



Roots, 22. 



Rose beetle, 149. 



Saddle grafting, 200. 

 Scurvy bark louse, 71. 

 Spring planting, 26. 

 Strawberry, August planting, 

 168. 



in beds, 168. 



insects injurious to, 173. 



hermaphrodite, 171. 



mowing, 374. 



varieties, 172. 

 Sulphur, 153. 

 Syringing apple trees, 67. 



foliage, 37. 



Tar paper, 66. 

 Tent caterpillar, 60. 

 Thinning fruit, 45. 

 Thrip, 150. 

 Time to plant, 26. 

 Twig borer, 71. 



Watering, 38. 

 Waters' pruner, 37. 

 Whip grafting, 198. 

 Wind breaks, 16. 

 Wood ashes, 31. 



Yellows in the peach, 106. 



