GENERAL INDEX. 



Agricultural experiment stations, 

 272 



act establishing, 273 

 Annular budding, 45 

 Anthracnose, 234 

 Aphis, apple, 170 



black peach, 191 



cherry, 196 



peach, 191 



woolly, 162 

 Apples, 287 



age of fruiting, 295 



changes wrought by climate 

 and soil, 294 



characteristics of, 297 



comparison of size, 298 



cultivation of, 290 



diseases of, 212 



index of varieties, 689 



nursery management of, 287 



proper way to pick, 125 



packing for market, 127 



planting orchards, 289 



renovating old orchards, 290 



varieties, 297 



I., summer, 298 

 II., autumn, 306 

 III., winter, 319 

 IV., crab, 348 

 Apple-maggot, 176 

 Apple-seed washer, 149 

 Apple-tree tent caterpillar, 173 

 Apple-trees, pruning young, 98 



dwarf, 295 



transplanting, 290 

 Apple-worm, 177. 



815 



Apricot, the, 351 



cultivation of, 351 



diseases of, 229 



index of varieties, 725 



varieties of, 352 

 Assorting fruit, 126 



Bagging grapes, 416 

 Banana, the, 653 



index of varieties, 726 



propagation of, 653 

 Bark, green, office of, 12 

 Bark beetle, 195 



lice, 165 

 Barrels, presses for heading up, 



128 

 Black peach aphis, 191 

 Blackberry, the, 356 



covering the, 307 



diseases of, 236 



index of varieties, 726 



pruning the, 356 



varieties of, 357 

 Black rot, 217 

 Blight, fire, 218 

 Bordeaux mixture, 215, 252 

 Borer, flat- headed apple-tree, 

 165 



peach-tree, 191 



round-headed, 163 

 Branches, the, 5 



divisions of, 5 

 Bud moth, 170 

 Budding, annular, 45 



knives, 29, 113 



limits of, 45 



