INDEX 



607 



Packing, in Eastern box, 41 



in Western box, 34 



laws, 21 



peach, 116 



pear, 121 



plums, 125 

 Packing and storage, quince, 132 

 Pails, picking, apple, 7 

 Paradichlorobenzene, 355 

 Peach, canning and drying, 118 



dried, production 1923-37, 105 



fertilizers, 436 



fruiting habits, 212 



grading laws, 117 



loading cars, 117 



marketing, 119 



packages for, 115 



packing, 116 

 bushel basket, 116 

 Georgia carrier, 116 

 houses for, 116 



picking, 112 



picking equipment, 114 



precooling, 118 



production by states. 111 



pruning, 247 



quantities picked in day, 113 

 regions and varieties, 201 

 season of shipment, 110 

 soil culture, 430 

 spray schedule, 305 

 storing, 118 

 thinning, 451 



tree borer, control, 355, 358 



trees, topworking, 379 



yields, 114 

 Peach and apricot, self-fruitful va- 

 rieties, 401 

 Pear, canning and drying, 121 



dried, production 1923-37, 105 



export markets, 123 



fertilizers, 438 



Pear, formation of fruit buds, 217 

 fruiting habits, 210 

 modified atmosphere storage, 146 

 packages and packing, 121 

 picking, 120 



production by states, 122 

 pruning, 244 



regions and varieties, 202 

 self-fruitful varieties, 398 

 self-unfruitful varieties, 398 

 shipment of, 123 

 soil culture, 431 

 spray program, 294 

 storage and refrigeration, 122 

 yields, 123 

 Peat moss, use in planting trees, 

 194 



Pedigree trees, 186 



Permanent trees, planting distances 



for, 179 

 Petroleum oil, 279 

 Physiology and nutrition, tree, 217 

 Picking bucket, apple, 8 



cherry, 131 



dates of varieties, 178 



determining proper time, apple, 

 11 



equipment, peach, 114 

 grapes, 520 

 peach, 112 

 pear, 120 

 plum, 124 



procedures, apple, 15 



quince, 132 



rate of, apple, 10 



receptacles, apple, 7 



strawberries, 486 



the fruit, apple, 15 



use of hormone sprays, 13 

 Pitch, lignin, 286 

 Plans, common storage, 59, 61 



planting, for orchards- 178 



