Index 



393 



Insects, biting, 357; injurious, see 

 Orchard Pests; sucking, 358. 



Interplanting, see Fillers. 



Irrigation, at blooming period, 203; 

 length of time, 210; methods, 

 206; time of, 203. 



Irrigations, number of, 210. 



Jonathan, core rot of, 252. 

 Judson, L. B., quoted, 270. 



Keeping qualities of fruit, color of, 

 228; superior in high altitudes, 

 251. 



Land, leveling, 29; raw, 30; settling, 



30. 



Leaf curl of peach, 355. 

 Leaves, chlorophyll, 64; starch, 64; 



stomata, 62. 

 Lime and sulfur wash, 387. 



Manure, see Green Manure, Stable 



Manure. 



Marketing fruit, 302. 

 Marl, common, 19; effects on trees, 



19. 

 Marly soil, orchards on, 19; rosette 



of apple on, 19; shade crops on, 



19. 



Mildew, see Apple Mildew. 

 Moore, J., quoted, 313, 

 Mormons, 4. 

 Mountains, protection afforded by, 



13. 

 Mountain valleys, fruit growing in, 



14. 



Night breezes, see Frost. 



Nitrifying bacteria, cultures of, 198. 



Nitrogen, 188. 



Northern Spy roots, how secured, 

 174. 



Nursery stock, agent for, 40; 

 budded trees, 38; care of, 40; 

 first class, 37; French crab- 

 stock, 173; peach, June-budded, 



39; June buds of, 39; trees, age 

 of, 38, 90; inspection of, 83; root- 

 grafted, 38 ; shriveled, 41 ; yearling 

 trees best, 38, 89. 



Orchard land, plowing, importance 

 of, 199. 



Orchard pests, 355; apple mildew, 

 360; brown mite, 367; codling- 

 moth, 368; crown gall, 359; 

 green aphis, 362; Howard scale, 

 381; peach leaf curl, 355; peach 

 mildew, 372; peach twig borer, 

 374; peach yellows, 372; pear 

 blight, 375; pear tree slug, 370; 

 root rots, 360; San Jose scale, 

 381; woolly aphis, 364. 



Orchards, commercial, 37; crop- 

 ping, the, 221 ; growing small fruits 

 in, 223; irrigation of young, 

 204. 



Organic matter, 183, 195; climatic 

 effect on, 16; exhaustion of, 

 183; lack of, in soil, 16; texture 

 of soil improved by, 16. * 



Overproduction, 251. 



Packing fruit, 267. 



Peach, branch buds, 74; dehorning, 

 132; diseases of, 317; fruit buds, 

 74; fruiting wood of, 130; grad- 

 ing by machine, 289; insects 

 injurious to, 374; leaf curl, 355; 

 low-headed, 104; mildew, 372; 

 packing, 286; propagation, 177; 

 pruning, 102, 127; illustrated, 

 104; soils for, 242; summer prun- 

 ing, 130; twig borer, 374; varieties, 

 description of, 243; winter in- 

 jury of, 131; yellows, 372. 



Pear, blight, 375; to avoid blight, 

 87; insects injurious to, 380; 

 propagation, 176; pruning, 133; 

 tree slug, 381; varieties, descrip- 

 tion of, 345. 



Phosphorus, 188. 



Picking fruit, 250. 



