Index 
Apple — PaKo 
Blight 41 
Borers 47 
Cultivation 34 
Planting Distance 34 
Planting 19 
Pruning 23, 29 
Spraying 73 
Soil 11, 34 
Thinning 35 
Apricot 47 
Cultivation 47, 48 
Spraying 76 
Cherry 49 
Planting Distance 50 
Pruning 49 
Spraying 74 
Crabapple 36 
Blight 41 
Peach 43 
Borers 47 
Cultivation 34. 47 
Dehorning Old Trees 46 
Location . 43 
Planting Distance 47 
Pruning 44 
Henewal Pruning 46 
Soil 43 
.Spraying 76 
Thinning 46 
Pear 
Blight 38 
Cultivation 37 
Dwarf Pear .- . . . 37, 41 
Killers 41 
Planting Distance 37 
f*runing 37 
Soil 37 
Spraying 76 
Plum 48 
Cultivation 49 
Planting Distance 48 
Pollination 49 
Spraying 76 
Quince 41 
Garden Roots 71 
Asparagus 71 
Khubarb (Pieplant) 71 
Small Fruits 50-64 
Blackberry 54 
Ciurant 58 
Dewberry 55 
tiooseberry 57 
(irape .50 
fiaspberry , 56 
Strawberry. Standard 58 to 64 
Strawberry. Everbearing.. . 64 
Ornamentals — 
Climbing \'ines 68 
Hedge l*!ants 68 
Iris 69 
Lilac 68 
Peony 69 
Phlox 70 
Roses 66 
Shade Trees 66 
Shrubs 07 
Page 
Blight 38 to 41 
Blossom 38 
Canker 39 
Friut 39 
Remedies 40 
Choosing a site 9, 10 
Cover crops 21 
Disging holes 19 
Dyn.imlting 12 
Ki rtilization 21, 22. 23 
Fillers 27, 28 
"Heeling in" trees 17 
"How to beautiO' your home 
grounds' 70 
How to handle trees on arrival 16 
How to know good trees 5 
Inter-Cropping 27, 28. 29 
leaving out the orchard 12. 13 
Making your orchard pro- 
duce 27, 28 
N tun ber of trees to acre 20 
Order dormant trees 3 
Manning home grounds 65 
Planting — 
On hillsides 15 
Methods 14. 15 
Plans 13, 14 
Trees 18. 19. 20 
Pollination 24, 25 
Preparation of land 11. 12 
J'runing — General principles'. 23 
Apple 23, 29 
Apricot 47 
Cherry 49 
Peach 44 
Pear 37 
Plum 48 
Protecting roots at planting. . 10 
Reason for ordering early, ... 3 
Remove wire labels. 20 
Spraying 72 to 80 
Apple 73 
Apricot 76 
Cherry 74 
Peach... 76 
Pear 76 
Plum 76 
Blackberry 77 
Currant 76 
Gooseberry 76 
Grape 76 
Raspberry 77 
Mixtures 77 
Results 80 
Young trees 77 
Stimulating wood growth. ... 34 
Stimulating bud formation. . . 35 
What kind of trees to buy. 2, 4, 7 
When to order 3 
When to plant 3 
When shipment can be made. 3 
Where to buy 2, 7, 8, 9 
AVhen to prune 23, 24 
Why trees do not bear 24, 25 
Winter injury, protection from 3 
(Under paragraph on Fall 
planting) 
