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GENERAL INDEX. 



Root hairs', 4 



main, 3 



parts of, 3 



tap, 3 

 Root-grafting, 37 



time for, 40 



tools for, 37 

 Rootlets, 4 



Roots and leaves, mutual rela- 

 tion between, 92 



preparing for transplanting, 

 68 



pruning the, 110 

 Rose-bug, 199 

 Rot, black, 217 



brown, 217 

 Rules for keeping fruit, 139 



for naming and describing 



fruits, 283 

 Rust, 212 



Saddle-grafting, 33 

 San Jose* scale, 167 

 Sap, circulation of, 9, 23 



flow of, 23 



functions of, 9 



grafting, cleft, 438 

 Sap-grafting, 438 

 Saw-fly, raspberry, 204 

 Scab, 214 



in citrus fruits, 639 

 Scions, how to send by mail, 32 



packing, 32 

 Scurfy bark-louse, 167 

 Seed, planting, 151 



raising grapes from, 418 

 Shaddock, the, 650 



index of varieties, 796 



varieties of, 651 

 Shears, hedge, 59 

 Shellbark hickory nuts, 454 

 Single shoots, pruning, 96 

 Sites, elevated, 52 

 Situation, 51 



Slug, pear, 182 



Small fruits, packing for market, 



131 



Snowy tree-cricket, 204 

 Soil, cultivation of the, 77 



qualities of, 49 



for nursery, 147 



for vineyards, 417 

 Soils, management of, 50 

 Species, definition of, 14 

 Spray calendar, 255 

 Spray pump, garden, 118 

 Spraying, 242 



apparatus for, 246 



grapes, 416 



materials for, 250 

 Stem, the, 5 



Stiffening trees against wind, 68 

 Storing fruit, houses for, 135 

 Strawberry, the, 596 



crown borer, 207 



cultivation of the, 598 



diseases of, 239 



early, 600 



leaf-roller, 208 



garden culture of, 600 



index of varieties, 796 



packing for market, 131 



perfect and imperfect flowers, 

 601 



root-louse, 206 



rules for setting out, 600 



runners, 599 



selection of varieties, 601 



soil for, 596 



staminate and pistillate 

 sorts, 601 



weevil, 209 



transplanting, 596 



varieties of, 603 



I., flowers perfect, 604 

 II., flowers imperfect, 608 

 Strawberry-raspberry, 618 

 Structure of plants, 2 



