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Index 



Physical handling, 329 

 Picking, 291 



utensils, 294 

 Piedmont, in Virginia, 40-41 



region, advantages and disad- 

 vantages, 105-106 

 Planting, distances, 149-151 



system of, 147-150 

 Planting-board, use of, 151 

 Plant-lice, 211 

 Plowing, 163 

 Plum curculio, 213 

 Pole pruners, 277-278 

 Pollination, 249-257 

 Pollinizers, 255 

 Pomme Grise, 408 

 Pooling, 321 



Potash, value of, 192-204 

 Pound Sweet, 422 

 Prices, relation to production, 7 

 Prices western apple land, 9 

 Productivity of varieties, 451 

 Pruning, 258-278 



cost of, 375-376 

 , time of, 276 

 Pumpkin Sweet, 422 

 Pyrus baccata, 27 



Ioensis, 27 



Mains, 26 



Quebec, apple industry in, 89 

 Quincunx planting system, 148 



Eambo, 419 



Raw versus planted land, 116 

 Recommended varieties, 391 

 Red Astrachan, 435 



Bug, 214 



Canada, 421 



Cheek, 431 



Cheek Pippin, 421 



June, 437 



Limbertwig, 414 

 Regional development, 130 

 Regions, apple, 28-84 

 Renovation of old orchards, 284- 

 290 



Rhode Island Greening, 398 

 Rogue River Valley, 72-73 



advantages and disadvantages, 



113 

 Rome Beauty, 401 

 Rosette, apple, 222 

 Rosy apple aphis, 211 

 Round-headed Apple-tree borer, 



214 

 Roxbury Russet, 408 

 Russets, 408 



San Jose' scale, life history and 

 control, 210 



Saperda Candida, 214 



Saws, 277 



Schisoneura lanigera, 212 



Sebastopol apple district, 78 



Sections, apple, 28-84 



Seed, quantity to use, 162 



Seed selection, 389 



Seeds, indicating maturity, 293 



Setting of fruit, 250-254 

 trees, 151-152 



Shears, 277 



Shenandoah j Cumberland district, 

 38-40 

 advantages and disadvantages, 

 104-105 



Shipping station, distance from, 

 119-120 



Site, choosing of, 116-131 



Size of farm, influence of, 366 

 of orchard, influence of, 364 



Slatted table, 297 



Smith's Cider, 439 



Smokehouse, 439 



Snow, 432 



Social conditions, 129 •- 



Sod-mulch, advantages and dis- 

 advantages, 157-158 



Soil, 130-132 

 Management, chart of, 164 

 management, cost of, 376 



Sooty blotch,. 217 



Sorting barreled apples, 296 

 boxed apples, 303 



