610 



INDEX 



Raspberry, harvesting and market- 

 ing, 553 

 insects and diseases, 551 

 life of plantation, 557 

 planting, 539 

 planting plans, 538 

 preparing soil, 537 

 pruning and training, 543 

 purple, 531 

 varieties, 560 



selecting, 535 

 yields, 558 

 red, 529 



varieties, 559 



selecting, 535 

 j'ields, 558 

 securing plants, 533 

 soil culture, 540 

 soils for, 532 

 time of planting, 533 

 winter protection, 558 

 Rectangular system of orchard 



planting, 181 

 Red raspberry, see Raspberry, red 

 Refrigeration and storage, pear, 

 122 



Refrigerator cars for apples, 97 

 Region, selecting, for fruit, 162 

 Regions and varieties, apple, 196 



apricot, 204 



cherry, 203 



peach, 201 



pear, 202 



plum, 204 



quince, 204 

 Rejuvenation pruning, 241 

 Removing trees from orchard, 267 

 Replacing trees, 152 

 Residues, removing spray, 44 

 Retail margins in selling apples 

 in N. Y. City 1937-38, 86 

 Retail marketing agencies, 81 



Retail outlets, quantities of apples 

 handled in N. Y. City, 

 1937-38, 82 



Ringing and notching, effects of, 

 219 



Roadside stands, 68 



Rod, spray, 327 



Roots, injury from cold, 160 



pruning, on arrival from nursery, 

 189 



Rotenone, 280 



S 



Sales, apple, as related to other 

 retail sales in N. Y. City 

 1937-38, 84 

 on stands in N. Y. City 1937- 

 38, 84 

 cooperative, 73 



through public cold storage, 72 

 Saws, pruning, 230 

 Scald, storage, apple, 66 

 Score card, for collections of fruits, 

 464 



for judging fruit, 460 



use of, in judging, 464 

 Season of maturity for apples, 176 

 Self-boiled lime sulfur, 284 

 Self-compatible varieties, 394 

 Self-fertile varieties, 394 

 Self-pollination, 393 

 Self-sterile varieties, 395 

 Self-unfruitful fruits, 394 

 Selling, by auction, 79 



methods of, apple, 68 

 Services, marketing, 79 

 Setting trees, 195 

 Shall I be a fruit grower, 581 

 Shears, pruning, 230 

 I Shield budding, 377 



