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INDEX. 



P 



PAPTLTO, how to destroy, 274. 

 PEACHES, different sorts cf, 22. 



Of the soil, and borders for Peaches, 28. 



Draining a wet soil, 29. 



— A sour wet clay, how to treat, 30. 



Of the choice of Peacb-Trees, ibid. 



* Preparing the borders and planting, ibid. 



Heading, topping, pruning, and training, 31. 



• ■ Pruning, training, and nailing of old Trees, 34. 



. Of making incisions, iOl.. 



— The Canker, 35-. 



— — The superfluous foreright shoots to be rubbed off and the small 



branches to be tucked in, ibid. J 

 — — « Of brushing off the leaves in Autumn, and imnailing the young 



branches, 36. 



- Shreds that have been once used should be soaked in boiling hot 



soapsuds, to kill the eggs of insects before they are used 

 again, ibid. 



« of covering Peach-Trees, and thinning the fruit, 37. 



• 1 The great advantage of using the Composition, ibid, 



— Of watering and mulching, 38. 



■ — The late side-shoots must be taken off, ibid. 



< Of picking off the leaves, ibid. 



— To procure, a regular succession, 39. 



**> Sorts for North and East walk, ibid. 



PEARS, different sorts of, 80, 81. 



— Choice of Trees, and planting, 94. 



Heading, 95. 



Stunted trees, how to treat, ibid. 



Pruning, 96. 



Cankery Trees, how to treat, ibid. 



> Experiments on unfruitful, old, and decayed Trees, ibid. 



— _ — A comparative statement of the produce of trees by the old and new 



way of pruning and training, 97. 

 — — — — Description of an old Beurre Pear-f ree restored from 1^ inch of 



sound bark, 99. 



PEARS, 



