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INDEX. 



APRICOTS, pruning, 6. 



Objections to autumnal pruning, ibid. 

 Best sorts for standards, ibid. 



B 



BARBERRIES, different sorts of, 108. 



Raising and pruning of Barberries, ibid. 

 BIRDS, to preserve fruit from them, 189. 

 BLIGHTS, what they are, and remedies for them, 169 to IH^ 

 BOMEYX, how to destroy, 184. 

 BUDDING, how performed, 138. 



Observations on budding, 142. 



Use of the Com.position in budding, 143. 



C 



CANKER, the description and causes of it, 163. 



Does not arise from the nature of the soil, 164. 



Does not proceed from the roots to the branches, but from the 



branches to the roots, ibid.] 

 To cure the Canker, ibid. 

 CATERPILLARS, how to destroy, 180. 

 CHERMES, how to destroy, 183. 

 CHERRIES, different sorts of, 29. 



Planting of them, 32. 



Heading down, its advantages, and how performed, ibid. 

 Incisions for producing new wood, 33. 

 The Canker in Cherry-trees, how to cure, ibid. 

 The bad effects of the common way of pruning, and a remedy, ibid. 

 Heart Cherries, how to prune, train, &c. 34. 

 Large Cherrj^-trees at Ashted-Park, Siury, ibid. note. 

 Manner of treating trees that produce spurs, ibid. 

 Advantages of the new method of priming and training, 35. 

 Heading down of old trees, 36. 

 CHESNUTS, Different sorts of, cultivated in England, 122. 



Excellent timber, ibid. 



Great Chesnut of Tortworth, ibid. 



Several large trees at Ashted Park, near Epsom, 123. note. 

 Propagating of, ibid. 



Gathering, and keeping of Chesnuts in winter, ibid. 

 Sowing, and management of Chesnuts in the Nursery, 124. 

 Planting out, ibid. 

 Heading down, 125. 

 CICADA, to destroy, 184. 



