INDEX. 



481 



Plowing mellow soils, 345 



Pceschel's Mammoth, 221 



Poudrette, 28 



Preparation of soil, 20-27 



Pressing grapes for wine, 428 



Primary roots,. 341 



Procris Americana, 394 



Propagation, 249-294 



, single eyes or buds, 250 



, under glass, 251 



, in hot-beds, 260 



, domestic, 270 



, single eyes in open air, ..275 



, cuttings, ...277 



__ layers, 279 



, , grafting, 283 



, seeds, hybridizing, 288 



Protection for young plants, 45 



Pruning the roots,. 43 



, summer, C3, 75 



at time of planting, 43 



at end of first year, 65 



, fall, 65 



. See Training. 



Q. 



Quesnel, plan of, 400 



Rack for stakes, .418 



Racking wines, 429 



Rank growth not desirable, 50, 69 



Rebecca, 199 



Red Spider, 392 



Renewal system, 144 



Renewing spurs, 308 



arms, 315 



upright stocks, 317 



Replacing spurs, 305 



Rentz, 215 



Reversed horizontal arms, 151, 414 



Right angle, how to make, 31 



Ringing the vine, 416 



Ripe, when grapes are, 236 



Ripeness, signs of, 238 



^_ ? rule for, 240 



, outward signs of, 241 



Rogers's Hybrids,. 204 



Root-pruning and transplanting, 88-40, 43 



47 



Roots must not get dry, 41 



, furnished with mouths, 41 



Roots, how to cover, 43 



must not be buried in manure, 41, 50 



Rose-bug, 386 



Rot, 383 



Rows, direction of, 29 



s, 



.103, 



Safety valves, 



Sage, 215 



Salem, 222 



Saratoga, .- 218 



Scuppernong, 214 



Sediment or lees, .450 



Seedlings should be tested, 216 



SeedSj plants from,.. 288 



Selandria vitis, 394 



Shelter, 10 



, its object, 17 



, various kinds, 18 



, for young plants,,. 45 



, Guyot's, 94 



, Dr. Grant's, 94 



, for ripening, 367 



Shortening or pruning the roots, 43 



Single eyes or buds make best plants, 35 



, how to plant, 41 



, under glass, 250 



, in hot beds, 260 



, in the open air,.. .275 



Soil, various kinds,. 20 



-, best for the grape,. 20 



, its preparation, 21 



-, importance of depth, 28 



, excessive richness objectionable, 28 



Souring, 450 



Sparkling wines, 430, 461 



Sphinges, 392 



Spotted beetle, 389 



Spring planting, 50 



Spurs, distance between, 72 



, formation of, 78 



, single and double, 79, 84,400 



, replacing, 305 



, renewing, 308 



, opposite, 320 



Stables, training vines on, 141 



Stakes, training on, 158 



- for vineyard, 329 



, training without, 413 



, rack for,. 413 



Steel blue beetle, 390 



Stocks, upright,. 105 



