INDEX 



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Age of nursery trees 24 



Apple fertilizers 52 



Apple stocks 2, 18 



Apricots 105 



Arsenate of lead 5 



Barnyard manure 48 



Bordeaux mixture 77 



Budding 8 



Budding knife 10 



Budding season 9 



Budding stick 9 



Budding versus grafting 8 



Buying nursery stock 22 



Central states varieties 99 



Cherries 105 



Cherry stocks 21 



Cleft-grafting 12 



Cover-crop seed 47 



Cover crops 117 



Cultivation 39, 1 16 



Cuttings 1 



Double planting 28, 29 



Doucin ■ stocks 19 



Dust spraying 86 



Dwarf apples 19 



Dwarf pears 20 



Dwarfing 17 



Fall versus spring planting 36 



Fertilizers 43, 116 



Fertilizers for special fruits 52 



"Foster mother" graft 8 



French apple stocks 19 



General management 118 



Grading stock 23 



Grafting knife 1 



Grafting tools 13 



Grafting wax 13 



Guarantees 24 



Heading in old trees 114 



Height for heading trees 67 



High heads versus low heads. ... 65 



Influence of stock on cion 16 



Insects, how to fight 79 



Inspection 24 



Interplanting 29 



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Kerosene emulsion 85 



Laying out an orchard 32 



Lime 49 



Lime-sulpbur solution 80 



Management 39 



Minor crops 43 



Mulch method 41 



Nectarines jos 



New England varieties 97 



Nitrate of soda 50 



Nozzles 88 



Number of trees to the acre 28 



Nurse-graft 7 



Nursery grades 23 



Nursery inspection 24 



Nursery stock 22 



Nurserymen 23 



Pacific Coast varieties 100 



Painting wounds 63 



Paradise stocks 19 



Paris green 80 



Peach budding 9 



Peach stocks 20 



Peaches 100 



Pear fertilizers 56 



Pear stocks 20 



Pears lOI 



Phosphoric acid 52 



Planting 27 



Planting board 34 



Planting distances 27 



Planting trees 34 



Plum fertilizers 56 



Plum stocks 21 



Plums 77 



Potash 51 



Principles of pruning 60 



Propagation 1 



Pruning 58 



Pruning at planting time 65 



Pruning knife 73 



Pruning methods 70 



Pruning saw 74 



Pruning shears 73 



Pruning tools 72 



Pumps 88 



Purposes of pruning 58 



