INDEX. 



ADVAjfOE in remedies, 17. 

 Age to plant trees, 22, 

 Aphides, 75, 

 Apples, distances to plant, 53. 



dwarfs , 57. 



gathering, 56. 



insects injurious to, 64. 



keeping, 56. 



profit of 50. 



pruning, 55. 



scraping 55. 



varieties, 58. 



where to plant, 13. 



whitewashing 55. 

 Apricots, 128. 

 Asparagus, 191. 



August planting of the straw- 

 berry, 181. 



Barklout-e. 76. 

 Blackberries, 177. 

 Blight of pear, 08. 

 Bone meal, 35 45. 

 Borers, apple, 69-71. 



cherry, 133. 



currant, 171. 



peach, 114. 



pear, 96. 



quince, 137. 

 Budding, 203. 



Canker-wormn 71. 

 Caterpillars, 67, 68. 

 Cherries, classes of, 130. 



dwarfs, 131. 



insects injurious to, 131. 



profit in, 20. 



varieties of, 130. 



where to plant, 13. 

 Cider, 56. 



Clean culture, 28, 38. 

 Cleft grafting, 209. 

 Codling moth, 64. 

 Commercial fertilizers, 33, 44. 



Condition of soil, 25. 

 Crab apples, 64. 

 Cracking of fruit, 99. 

 Curculio, 119. 

 Currant, cultivation of, 168. 



where to plant, 14. 

 Cuttings, propagating by, 197. 



DiflBculties in fruit culture, 16. 

 Diseases of the apple, 64. 

 grape, 163. 

 peach, 114. 

 pear, 98. 

 plum, 119. 

 Distances to plant, 36. 



for dwarf apples, 57, 

 cherries, 131. 

 pears , 88. 

 Doucain stock, 57. 

 Drainage, 3. 28. 

 Dwarf apples, 57. 



cherries, 131. 

 pears, 88. 



Elevated sites, 15, 100. 

 Exposure of roots, 24. 



Fall planting, 26. 



Fall-web worm, 74. 



Fertilizers, 3 ',42. 



Fibrous roots, 23. 



Fig, cultivation of, 190. 



Fire blight, 98. 



Flat-lieaded borer, 71. 



Forest tent caterpillar, 68. 



Frosty sitrs. 15. 



Fruit culture, advant^e of, 11. 



profit in, 18. 

 Fungi, 78. 

 Fungicides, 223. 



German salts, 34. 

 Gipsy moth, 77. 



