INDEX 



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Parasitic fungi, development of. 7 



Paris green 10 



Peach . , 73 



aphis 73 



leaf-curl 74 



rot 75 



Pear, The 76 



slug 76, 81 



leaf-blight 77, 102 



psylla 77 



scab^ 78 



Pernicious scale 57 



Petroleum, crude 16 



Philosophy of spraying i 



Plum, The 69 



curculio ....4, 62, 69, 73, 76, 80 



gouger 69 



leaf-blight 102, 104 



rot 70 



Potassium sulphide 27 



Potato, The 119 



beetle 119 



brown-rot 122 



early blight 120 



late blight 120 



rot 120 



Powdery mildew 102 



Prejudice against spraying 31 



Profits in spraying 45 



Pruning trees 53 



Pyrethrum 14 



Quince, The 79 



Raspberry, The 97 



anthracnose 97 



cane-rust 97 



slug 97 



Red-legged flea-beetle 73 



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Red-spider 116 



Resin soap 18 



Rose leaf -hopper 115 



slug 114 



San Jose scale 57, 73, 99 



Scheele's green 13 



Shade trees 107 



Shot-hole fungus 71 



Soda hyposulphite 27 



Spraying against insects i 



and the weatiier 49 



apparatus 32 



cost of ; 43 



calendar 50 



materials, cost of 30 



nozzles 38 



philosophy of i 



precautions 53 



prejudice against 31 



profits of 49 



trees in blossom, 49 



Strawberry, The 85 



leaf-blight 87 



leaf-beetles 87 



leaf-roller 85 



root-worms 86 



slug 85 



Sulphate of copper 27 



Tent caterpillar 64 



Tobacco decoction 19 



Wavy-striped flea-beetle 125 



Whale-oil soap 19 



White-marked tussock-moth .... 109 



Woolly aphis 60 



bark-louse 107 



Zebra caterpillar 125 



