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INDEX 



Banana, the, 211 



Barberry, the, 30 



Bars, water, 303 



Blackberries and allied fruits, 30 



Blackberry, The Parsley Leaved, 30 ; Cumberland 



Blackcap, 30 ; Early King, 30 ; The Lawton, 30 ; 



Lucretia, 30 ; Whitewash Bramble, 30; Wilson 



Junior, 31 ; Mahdi, the, 31 

 Boiler, setting the, 303 

 Boilers and heating apparatus, 301 

 Bullaces, 160 ; Black BuUace, 160 ; Shepherd's 



BuUace, 160 

 Bush fruits, protecting, 47 



Channel Islands, fruit culture in the, 384 



Checker tree, the, 31 



Cherry, the, 32 ; The Morello, 39 ; trees on walls, 

 36; form of tree, 37; planting, 37; protecting 

 the blossom, 38 ; protection from birds, 38 ; 

 under glass, 39; diseases, 40; insect enemies, 

 40 ; varieties for walls and under glass, 41 



Cherry, Archduke, 41; Belle de Choisy, 41; Belle 

 de Montreuil, 45 ; Belle d'Orl^ans, 41 ; Belle de 

 St.Tronc,45; Belle Francoville, 45 ; Bigarreaude 

 Mezel, 42 ; BigarreaudeSchreken,45 ; Bigarreau 

 Jaboulay, 42; Bigarreau Noir de Guben, 45; 

 Bigarreau Noir de Schmidt, 45 ; Black Eagle , 45 ; 

 Black Heart, 42 ; Black Tartarian, 42; Bohemian 

 Black Bigarreau, 45 ; Cleveland Bigarreau, 42; 

 Coe's Carnation, 45 ; Duchesse de Palluau, 45 ; 

 Early Purple Guigne, 45; Early Rivers, 42; Elton 

 Heart, 42 ; Empress Eugdnie, 45 ; Early Lyons, 

 42; Emperor Francis, 42; Flemish Red, 42; 

 Florence Heart, 43 ; Frogmore Early Bigarreau, 

 43; G^antde Hedelfingen, 43; Governor Wood, 

 43; Guigne d'Annonay, 43; Guigne de Winkler, 

 45 ; Kentish Bigarreau, 43 ; Kentish Red, 43 ; 

 Knight's Early Black, 43 ; Ludwig's Bigarreau, 

 43; May Duke, 44; Morello, 44; Napoleon 

 Bigarreau, 44 ; Nouvelle Royale, 44 ; Old Black 

 Heart, 44; Olivet, 45 ; Ramon Oliva, 45 ; Reine 

 Hortense, 45 ; Ronald's Late Duke, 44 ; Royal 

 Duke, 44; St. Margaret's, 44; The Noble, 44; 

 Waterloo, 44 ; Windsor, 45 



Cherries for bush trees, 35 ; for orchards, 33 ; 

 pruning, 33; various positions, 33; varieties, 

 34 ; garden, 35 ; the best, 41 



Citron, the, 205 



Citrus family, the, 205 



Crab, the, 45; Dartmouth, the, 45 ; Downie,John, 

 45; Fairy, 45; Mammoth, 45; Orange, the, 45 ; 

 Siberian, Cheal's Scarlet, 45; Siberian, the 

 Scarlet, 45; Siberian, the Yellow, 45; Trans- 

 parent, the, 45 ; Transcendent, 45 



Crops, spraying, 290 



Currant, the black, 48 



Currants, red and white, 46 ; culture, 46 ; pruning, 

 46 ; the best black — Baldwin's, 49 ; Black 

 Naples, 49 ; Boskoop Giant, 49 ; Carter's 

 Champion, 49 ; Green Bud, 49 ; Mammoth, 49 ; 

 Maple, 49 ; White Bud, 49 ; the best red — 

 Champagne Red, 49 ; Cherry, 50 ; Chiswick Red, 

 50; Cornet, 50; Defiance, 50 ; Fay's Prolific, 50; 

 Houghton Castle, 50; La Fertile, 50; La Ver- 

 saillaise, 50 ; Late Dutch, 50 ; May's Victoria, 

 50; Moore's Seedling, 50 ; New Dutch Red, 50 ; 

 Prince Albert, 50 ; Raby Castle, 50 ; the Scotch 



Red, 49; the best white — Grosse, Blanche 

 50 ; Shilling's Cut-Leaved White, 50 ; White 

 Dutch, 50; White Transparent, 50 ; Versailles, 



Cyphomandra betacea, 212 



Damson, the, 160 



Damson, Bradley's King, Cheshire or Shrop- 

 shire ; Frogmore Prolific ; Farleigh Prolific ; 

 Prune of Hereford ; White Damson, 160 



Diospyros Kaki, 208 



EriobotT-ya japonica , 215 

 Eugenia Ugni, 215 



Fig, the, 51 ; crop, the second, 57; cultural notes , 

 53; culture under glass, 54; fertilisation, ■ 57 ; 

 protection, 54; pruning, 54; thinning the fruit, 

 56; training, 55; varieties, the best, 57 ; ventila- 

 tion, 56 



Fig, Angelique, 58; Black Ischia, 57; Bour- 

 jasotte Grise, 57 ; Brown Turkey, 57 ; Bruns- 

 wick, 57; D'Agen, 58; Gourand Rouge, 58; 

 Madeleine, 58 ; Malta, 57 ; Monaco Bianca, 57 ; 

 Nagronne, 58 ; Nebian, 58 ; Negro Largo,, 58 ; 

 Osborne's Prolific, 58; Pingo de Mel, 58; 

 Reculer, 58; St. John's, 58; Singleton, 58; 

 Violette de Bordeaux, 58; Violette Sepor, 58; 

 White Ischia, 58 ; White Marseilles, 58 



Figs, the best, 57 



Filberts, 92 



France, fruit culture in, 326 



Fruit culture in America, 305 — almond, the sweet, 

 324; apple, 307; apricot, 315; berries, the, 

 319; blackberries, 320 ; blueberry, 321 ; cherry, 

 315; chestnut, 325 ; citron, 322 ; citrus fruits, 

 321; cocoanut, 324; cranberry, the, 320; cur- 

 rants, 321 ; date, 323 ; figs, 323 ; filberts, 325 ; 

 fruit culture under glass, 325 ; fruit storage, 326; 

 fruits, miscellaneous tender, 224 ; fungus dis- 

 eases and insects, 325 ; gooseberries, 320 ; 

 grape, 317; huckleberry, 321; juneberry, 321; 

 kumquat, 322; lemon, 322; mango, 324; nec- 

 tarine, 311 ; nuts, 324 ; olive, 323 ; peach, 309 ; 

 pear, 312; pecan, 325; pineapple, 324; plum, 

 313 ; pomelo, 322 ; quince, 316 ; raspberry, 320 ; 

 strawberry, 319; vine in California, 318 ; wal- 

 nut, the Persian, 325 



Fruit culture in the Channel Islands, 384— fig, 

 384; grape, 385; melon, 387; peaches and 

 nectarines, 388 ; pear, 389 ; tomato, 389 ; other 

 crops, 392 ; fruit cases, 393 ; fuel, 393 ; prospects, 



394- 

 Fruit culture in France, 327 — almond, 348 ; apple, 

 371 ; apples, the best, 372 ; apricot, 346 ; 

 cherry, 348; cherries, the best, 350; chest- 

 nuts, 351 ; currant, 353 ; fig, 352 ; forms 

 for open-air culture, principal, 337; column 

 shaped, 338 ; cordons, 343 ; palmates, 339 ; 

 standard, 338; pyramid, 338; fruit gathering, 

 336 ; fruit trees in pots, 331 ; fruit trees, trained, 

 329 ; gardens, amateurs', 327 ; gardens, experi- 

 mental, 327; gardens, market, 329; goose- 

 berry, 354 ; grapes, the best for open-air culturel 

 383 ; incision, annular, 335 ; manures, chemica, 

 composition of, 332 ; medlar, 354 ; nectarines, 

 the best, 360 ; nut, the hazel, 354; peach, 355 ; 



