GENERAL INDEX. 



819 



Implements used by fruit grow- 

 ers, tree-tags, 119-121 



vine scissors, 116 

 Insects, destructive, 160 



and diseases, 160 



affecting citrus fruits, 635 



how they eat, 160 



Japanese wineberry, 618 

 Juneberry, 614 



Keeping fruit, rules for, 139 



Ladder, folding, 117 



fruit-tree, 116 



pointed, 116 

 Lakes and rivers, influence of, 53 

 Layer, cambium, 5 



cortical, 5 

 Layers, propagation by, 26 

 Leaf-blight in pears, 220 

 Leaf-hopper, grape-vine, 200 

 Leaves, composition of, 7 



necessity of, 12 



pores of, 8 

 Lecanium scale, 169 

 Lemon, the, 646 



cultivating the, 646 



diseases of the, 637 



index of varieties, 742 



marketing the, 647 



varieties of, 647 

 Limb-bhght, in citrus fruits, 637 

 Lime, the, 651 



index of varieties, 743 



propagation of, 652 



varieties of, 652 

 Loquat, the, 667 



propagation of, 668 



varieties of^ 668 



Mai de goma, 637 

 Management of nurseries, 147 

 Manures, 50 

 Manuring, faulty, 82 

 when necessary, 83 



Medlars, 615 



Mice, damage by, 293 



Mildew, 233 



Moisture, exhalation of, 11 



Mulberry, the, 428 



index of varieties, 743 

 varieties of, 429 

 propagation of, 429 



Mulching, 70 



Nectarine, the, 431 



index of varieties, 743 



varieties of, 431 

 Nests, wooden, for small fruit, 



132 

 Net screens for cherries, 365 

 Nurseries, management of, 147 

 Nursery: budding and grafting, 

 153 



cultivation of, 153 



laying out, 148 



lifting trees, 155 



seeds and stocks for, 148 



shelter for, 148 



soil for, 147 



trees, pruning, 96 

 Nuts, 434 



chestnuts, 439 



chinquapin, 444 



cleft-sap grafting of, 438 



hazelnuts, 444 



hickories, 449 



index of varieties, 745 



pecan, 449 



prong-grafting of, 437 



propagation of, 435 



shellbark hickories, 454 



walnuts, 456 



Orange, the, 621 

 budding the, 624 

 cultivation of, 631 

 cuttings and layers of, 628 

 diseases of, 637 



