Index 



429 



Pear roots, 97. 



species of, 3. 

 Pears, diseases of, 357. 



distance for, 177. 



fertilisers for, 144. 



insects, 357. 



picking, 367. 



sterile and fertile, 157. 



stock for, 170. 



temperatures injurious to, 314. 



trimming, 186. 

 Peas, as cover-crop, 123 



seed to the acre, 124, 125. 



temperatures injurious to, 314. 



weight of seeds, 126. 

 Pecan, 5. 



diseases and insects, 359. 



distance for, 177. 

 Pedigree plants, 168. 

 Peresfda aculeata, 8. 

 Persea gratissiTna, 6. 

 Persimmon, 5. 

 Phoenix dactylifera, 6. 

 Phosphoric acid, amount of, 131. 



for apples, 143. 

 PhyUanthus disticha, 6. 

 Phylloscelis atra, 352. 

 Phylloxera species; 386. 

 Physiological diseases, 323. 

 Pickett, on results of tillage, 71. 

 Picking fruits, 365. 

 Pih nut, 6. 

 Pineapple, 8. 



screening, 259. 



soil-adaptation, 13. 

 Pine-hole borer, 295. 

 Pistaeio vera, 6. 

 Place for fruit-growing, 39. 

 Flanker, 90. 

 Plantain, S. 



Plantation and productiveness, 287. 

 Plant-bug, four-striped, 354. 



-Uce, 343. 



-lice, attacks by, 323. 

 Planting-board, 195. 



plan, 181. 

 Plants, securing of, 164. 



setting of, 174. 

 Plasmopara vUicola, 354. 

 Plat of orchards, 221. 

 Plowing to save moisture, 84. 

 Plow, lajring out with, 198. 

 Plowrightia morbosa, 359. 

 Plum buds, on peach, 14. 



domestica, soil-adaptation, 13. 



Jew, 5. 



Natal, 7. 



Plum, species of, 3. 

 Plums, diseases of, 359. 



distance for, 177. 



fertilizers for, 147. 



insects, 359. 



picking, 368. 



sterile and fertile, 158. 



stock for, 171. 



temperatures injurious to, 314. 



thinning of, 248. 



trimming, 187. 

 Podospksera oxycanthse, 352. 

 Poisoning, arsenical, 361. 

 Polychrosia viteana, 355. 

 Pome, 2. 

 Pomegranate, 6. 

 Pomelo, 4. 



Pomology, definition of, 1. 

 Ponairus trifoliata, 4. 

 Pond-apple, 4. 

 Parthetria dispar, 348. 

 Potash, amount of, 131. 



for apples, 139, 143. 

 Powell, G. H., quoted, 281, 369. 

 Powell, George T., cover-crops, 115. 



on exporting apples, 394. 

 Power sprayer, 334. 

 Prediction of frost, 252. 

 Prickly pear, 8. 



Propagation and productiveness, 287. 

 Protection from frost, 251. 

 Proteopteryx deludana, 359. 

 Pnmes, temperatures injurious to, 314. 

 Pnming, 184, 230. 



and productiveness, 287. 

 Prunus, species of, 3, 5. 

 Pseudomonas juglandis, 361, 

 Psidium Guajava, 4. 

 PsyUa pyricola, 358. 

 Pteronus ribesii, 354. 

 Puddling, 184. 

 Pumps for spraying, 326. 

 Punica Granatum, 6. 

 Pyrus, species of, 3. 



Quince, diseases and insecte, 360. 



distance for, 177. 



fertilizers for, 147. 



on low lands, 53. 



species of, 3. 



sterility of, 158. 

 Quincunx system, 192. 



Rabbits, protection from, 290. 

 Rain at blooming- time, 41. 



effect on setting of fruit, 317. 

 Rape, as cover-crop 118, 122, 123, 124. 



