GENERAL INDEX. 



Agricultural experiment stations, 



272 

 act establishing, 273 



Annular budding, 45 



Anthracnose, 234 



Aphis, apple, 170 

 black peach, 191 

 cherry, 196 

 peach, 191 

 woolly, 162 



Apples, 287 



age of fruiting, 295 

 changes wrought by climate 



and soil, 294 

 characteristics of, 297 

 comparison of size, 298 

 cultivation of, 290 

 diseases of, 212 

 index of varieties, 689 

 nursery management of, 287 

 proper way to pick, 125 

 packing for market, 127 

 planting orchards, 289 

 renovating old orchards, 290 

 varieties, 297 



I., summer, 298 

 II., autumn, 306 

 III., winter, 319 

 IV., crab, 348 



Apple- maggot, 176 



Apple-seed washer, 149 



Apple-tree tent caterpillar, 173 



Apple-trees, pruning young, 98 

 dwarf, 295 

 transplanting, 290 



Apple-worm, 177 



Apricot, the, 351 



cultivation of, 351 



diseases of, 229 



index of varieties, 725 



varieties of, 352 

 Assorting fruit, 126 



Bagging grapes, 416 

 Banana, the, 653 



index of varieties, 726 



propagation of, 653 

 Bark, green, office of, 12 

 Bark beetle, 195 



lice, 165 

 Barrels, presses for heading up, 



128 



Black peach aphis, 191 

 Blackberry, the, 356 



covering the, 307 



diseases of, 236 



index of varieties, 726 



pruning the, 356 



varieties of, 357 

 Black rot, 217 

 Blight, fire, 218 

 Bordeaux mixture, 215, 252 

 Borer, flat-headed apple - tree, 

 165 



peach-tree, 191 



round-headed, 163 

 Branches, the, 5 



divisions of, 5 

 Bud moth, 170 

 Budding, annular, 45 



knives, 29, 113 



limits of, 45 



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