Index 



431 



Storing fruits, 413. 



Strawberries, diseases and insects, 360. 



distance for, 177, 



fertilizers for, 150. 



unjury from frosts, 309. 



on low lands, 52. 



picking, 366. 



sterile and fertile, 157. 



temperatures injurious to, 314. 

 Strawberry, species of, 8. 



tree, 6. 

 Stripping trees, 175. 

 Stuart, on pruning, 234. 



on setting-board, 196. 

 Subsoil, as soil determinant, 15. 

 Sugar-apple, 4. 

 Sulfate, low-grade, for apples, 143. 



of potash, for apples, 137. 

 Summer-fallow, 104. 

 Sun-scald, protection from, 292. 

 Surinam cherry, 4. 

 Sweet-sop, 4. 



Tamarind, 5. 

 Tamarindus indica, 5. 

 Tangerine, 4. 



temperatures injurious to, 314. 

 Tare, as cover-crop, 120. 

 Tarr, quoted, 46. 

 Temperature, dangers of, 44. 



determinant, 11. 



injurious to fruits, 314. 

 Tent-caterpillars, 57, 349. 

 TermiTwXia Catappa, 6. 

 Tetrancykus bimaculatus, 357. 

 Thinning the fruit, 241, 249. 

 Thornber, on fillers, 180. 



on use of com in orchards, 104. 

 Thrips, 358. 

 Tight-jacket trees, 275. 

 Tillage, 64, 91. 



and productiveness, 287, 



benefits of, 76. 



philosophy of, 75. 

 Tilling for frost, 260. 

 Tmetocera ocellana, 346. 

 Tobacco, as insecticide, 341. 

 Tools in relation to moisture-saving, 84. 

 Top-grafting trees, 279. 

 Top-working stocks, 171. 

 Tortrix, 351. 

 Tree-cricket, 351. 

 Tree tortrix, 351. 

 Triangular system, 192. 

 "Tribune Farmer," quoted, 13. 

 Trinmiing, 184. 

 TriphcLsia tri/oliata, 4. 



Turnips, as cover-crop, 118, 123, 124. 



seed to the acre, 124, 12^ 

 Tussock-moth, 350. 

 Twig-moth, 357. 

 Typhlocyba comes, 355. 

 Typophrua caneUus, 360. 



Vaccinium, species of, 7, 8. 



Vaha leucoatoma, 305. 



Van Deman, H. E., on planting, IT? 



Vapor vs. frost, 260. 



Varieties and productiveness, 287. 



choice of, 163. 



scoring of, 161. 

 Vegetables for home fruit-garden, T ': 

 Venturia inegualis, 344. 

 Veratrum album, 338. 

 Vetch, as cover-crop, 120, 122, 12i 



seed to the acre, 124, 125. 



weight of seeds, 126. 

 Vicia species, as cover-crop, 120. 

 Vigna sinensis, as cover-crop, 119. 

 Vincent, on crossing apples, 159. 

 Vitis, species of, 6. 



Wagons for picking, 374. 



Waite, quoted, 157. 



Walnut, diseases and insects, SOi. 



English, temperatures injurious to,3 1 1 



species of, 5. 

 Warner, on cost-accounting, 27. 

 Water in air, 260. 

 Watering young trees, 274. 

 Wax, grafting, 281. 

 Wealthy apple, table of points, 162. 

 Weather and location, 41, 49. 

 Weeds, as cover-crops, 123. ■ 

 Weevils, 352. 

 Wellhouse orchards, 201. 

 Wellington, on orchard-heating, 271. 

 Wheat, as cover-crop, 119, 123, 124. 



constituents of, 133. 



seed to the acre, 124. 

 Wheeler, on fertilizers, 144, 146, 148, 



149, 150, 151, 152, 

 Whetzel, 344. 



White, Elizabeth C, quoted, 260. 

 Whitewashing as protection, 259. 



treei, 2t .. 

 Whitten, on whitewt ohing, 259. 

 Wickson, on windbreaks, 63. 

 Wilder, H. J , on soil-adaptations, 13. 

 Wilson, C. S., on irrigation in the East, 

 106. 



on packing, 401. 



quantity of seed for cover-crops, 

 124. 



