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INDEX. 



APRICOTS, Proper Trees, preparing the borders, and planting, 5. 



— Heading and trainings 6. 



Shortening the horizontal shoots, ibid. 



Old and decayed Trees, how to manage, 7. 



Injuries sustained by cutting or breaking off large branches, how 



to remedy, ibid. 



Canker to cure, ibid. 



Topping young shoots, 8. 



l _ Young shoots should be unnailed after the fall of the leaf, ibid-. 



~ Pruning, ibid. 



Objections to Autumnal pruning, ibid. 



. Covering of Apricots, 9. 



How to have early and late crops, 10. 



— , Best sorts for standards, ibid. 



BAKBERRIES, different sorts of, 165. 



Raising and pruning of Barberries, ibid. 



BIRDS, To preserve fruit from them, 279. 



BLIGHTS, what they are, and remedies for them, 251 to 254, 

 BOMBYX, how to destroy, 273. 

 BUDDING, how performed, 206. 



L ~- Observations on budding, 212. 



„ Use of the Composition in budding, 21 3. 



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CANKER, the description and causes of it, 241. 



j — Does not arise from the nature of the soil, 242. 



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

 branches to the roots, 243 * 



, — To cure the Canker, ibid. 



CATERPILLARS, how to destroy, 267. 

 CHERMES, how to destroy, 272. 

 CHERRIES, different sorts of, 46. 



, — . ~ Planting of them, 49. 



— — ■ Pruning and training, 50. 



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