GENERAL INDEX. 743 



PREPARATION OF SOIL FOR AN ORCHARD 213 



Preparing Trees to Plant 224 



Pronged Hoe 131 



PROPAGATION, SECT. 1 52 



PROPAGATION, SECT. IT. GRAFTING 74 



PROPAGATION, SECT. III. BUDDING 102 



PROPAGATION, SECT. IV. THE NURSERY 120 



Progagation by Cuttings 57 



" Suckers 63 



" Layers 66 



" Seeds 70 



Pruning, Objects of 252 



" Season for '. 260 



il Summer 259 



" Young Trees 256 



Puddling 233 



ouinciinx Planting 240 



Redrafting Old Orchards 85 



Richard Side Graft 82 



Ring Budding .' 114 



Ring Grafting 84 



RIPENING AND PRESERVING FRUITS 275 



Roots Affected by Soil 123 



" Fibrous, Desirable 124 



Root Cuttings 58 



Root-Grafting 88 



Root-Grafts, Planting 93 



Treatment of 94 



Root-Pruning 124-147 



Saddle Grafting 83 



Scions 100 



" Time to Cut 100 



" Preservation of. 100 



Season for Planting 236 



Seedlings, Treatment of 72 



Seeds, Forms of 364 



" Preserving 70 



" Sowing. -. 71 



SELECTION AND PLANTING 229 



Shrivelled Trees 236 



Side Grafting 81 



Silas Wharton 24 



SITE FOR AN ORCHARD 198 



Size of Fruits 356 



' ' of Trees 230 



Skin of Fruits, Characters of 356 



Small Fruits in Orchard 238 



Splice Grafting 78 



Stakes 221 



Stem, Kinds of. 362 



Stocks, Dwarfing 145 



Stock-Grafting 95 



Stool-Layering 68 



