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INDEX. 



Branches, the, various subdivisions of,? j pruning, 88 ; removal of large, 

 management of fruit, 217. 



Budding, method of, 70 ; conditions necessary to the operation of, 71 ; imple- 

 ments requisite for, 71, 12; cutting, preparing, and preserving the buds, 

 72; chief difficulty experienced by beginners in, 74, 75; time for, 133; 

 insertion of the bud, 134 ; untying the buds, 135 ; treatment of the grow- 

 ing bud, 136. 



Buds, nature zmd functions of, 14; different names and characters of, 15; 



variations in the size, form, and prominence of leaf buds, 17 ; fruit buda^ 



18 ; leaf and fruit buds how distinguished, 20. 

 Bushes, dwarf, 142. 



Calcareous or chalky soils, nature 49. ^ 

 Calyx, the, 28. 

 Cambium, nature of, 24. 



Canada or wild plum, the, 120 ; time for budding, 133. 

 Canker worm, the, 368. 

 Cart, the one-horse, 378. 



Caterpillars, methods of destroying, 369. *' 

 Cats, method of protecting trees from, 376. • 



Cherries, forms of. 43 ; abridged descriptions of fifty-five seled varieties of 

 haart, bigarreau, duke and morello, and new and rare cherries recently 

 brought to notice, 321-329 ; small select lists of, 329. 



Cherry, the, principal stocks in use for, 115; time for budding, 133; in the 

 pyramidal form, 191 ; pruning the, 224; as a standard, 225; to form a 

 round open head, 225 ; as a pyramid, 226 ; as an espalier, 227 ; as a dwarf 

 or bush, 228 ; effects of the disease called gum on, 362. 



Chestnuts, method of propagating, 148 ; select varieties of,*351, 352. 



Chinese layering, description of the process so called, 122, 125. 



Chisel, the grafting, 384; 



Clayey soils, nature of, 48. 



Cleft grafting, 79. 



Corolla, the, 28. 



Cotyledons, the, 44. 



Cultivator, the, 377. 



Curl of the leaf in the peacn, the, 364. 



Currant, the, method of propagating, 147 ; pruning and management of, 265, 



as a pyramid and espalier, 266. 

 Currants, abridged descriptions of eleven select varieties of, 341, 342. 

 Cutting back, object of, 207 ; process of, 208 ; summer management of trees 



cut back, 213. 



Cuttings of fruit trees, how to make, 65 ; time of making, soil proper for, 

 and time of planting, 66 ; method of preserving, 67 ; treatment of, when 

 • transplanted, 127. 



