760 GENERAL INDEX. 



Soft-Soap, for steins of trees, 710 



Species of Fruit Trees, 3. 



Spurring-in, training the vine, 302. 



Stopping the bearing shoots of the vine, 803. 



Strawberry, history and uses, 664; propagation and soil, 665; modes of culture, 666; 



fertile and barren plants, 667 ; varieties, 669 ; sorts superseded, 679 ; Alpine 



and wood strawberries, 683 ; hautbois strawberries, 684 ; Chili strawberries, 



685 ; green strawberries, 685. 

 Suckers, propagating by, 29. 



Stocks, for grafting, 13 ; their influence on graft, 24. 

 Taking up Trees, 42. 



Thorn, the, good stocks for pear trees, 410. 

 Tobacco- Water, remedy for insects, 54. 

 Toads destroy insects, 56. 

 Training, remarks on, 35; its objects, 36; conical standards and quenouille training, 



86 ; fan training, 39 ; horizontal training, 40. 

 Transplanting, remarks on, 41 ; best season for, 41 ; preparing the places, 4.3 ; proper 



size for, 46 ; laying in by the heels, 47. 

 Trellis, use of, for the vine, 303. 

 Trenching, to improve soil, 50. 

 Vallies, objectionable for fruit trees, 51. 

 van Mons' Theory, 5. 

 Varieties, to produce new, 8; tendency to change, 4; influence of gi-afting on, 5; Van 



Mons' method of raising new, 5 ; cross-breeding, 9 ; propagation of, 12 ; remarks 



on the duration of, 701 ; Knight's theory on the decay of, 702 ; effects of climate 



on, 703 ; to restore decayed, 708. 

 Vine, grafting the, 18 ; culture of, 302. 



Vinery, cheap mode of building, 304 ; for fire-heat, 807 ; diary of culture, 310. 

 Vineyard Culture, 831. 



Water Melon, its uses, culture, and varieties, 689. 

 Wash for stems of fruit trees, 710. 

 Weevil, attacks plums, 353. 

 Whale-oil Soap, to destroy insects, 54. 

 Wild Plum, varieties indigenous, 850. 

 Woolly Aphis, the, 66. 



Wounds made in pruning, composition for, 32. 

 Yellows, disease of, in Peach, 597 ; symptoms, 59 7 ; cause, 599 ; remedy, 60& 



