760 
GENERAL INDEX. 
Soft-Soap, for stems of trees, T10 
Species of Fruit Trees, 3. 
Spurring-in, training the vine, 302. 
^Stopping the bearing shoots of the vine, 303. 
Strawberry, history and uses, 664; propagation and soil, 665; modes of culture, 656; 
fertile and barren plants, 667 ; varieties, 669 ; sorts superseded, 679 ; Alpine 
t.M wood strawberries, 683; hautbois strawberries, 684; Chili strawberries, 
6S5 ; green strawberries, 685. 
Suckers, propagating by, 29. 
Stocks, for grafting, 13 ; their influence on graft, 24. 
Taking up Trees, 42. 
Thorn, the, good stocks for pear trees, 410. 
Tobacco-Water, remedy for iqsects, 54. 
Toads destroy insects, 56. 
Training, remarks on, 35; its. objects, 36; conical standards and quenouilie training, 
36 ; fan training, 39 ;' horizontal training, 40. 
Transplanting, remarks on, 41 ; best season for, 41 ; preparing the places, 43 ; proper 
size for, 46 ; layingln by the heels, 47. 
Trellis, use of, for the vine, 303. 
Trenching, to improve soil, 50. 
Yallies, objectionable for fruit trees, 51. 
van Mons’ Theory, 5. 
Varieties, to produce new, 3; tendency to change, 4; influence of grafting on, 5; Van 
Mons’ method of raising new, 5 ; cross-breeding, 9 ; propagation of, 12 ; remarks 
on the duration of, 701 ; Knight’s theory on the decay of, 702 ; effects of climate 
on, 703 ; to restore decayed, 708. 
Vine, grafting the, 18 ; culture of, 302. 
Vinery, cheap mode of building, 304 ; for fire-heat, 307 ; diary of culture, 310. 
Vineyard Culture, 331. 
Water Melon, its uses, culture, and varieties, 689. 
Wash for stems of fruit trees, 710. 
Weevil, attacks plums, 353. 
Whale-oil Soap, to destroy insects, 54. 
/Wild Plum, varieties indigenous, 850. 
Woolly Aphis, the, 66. 
Wounds made in pruning, composition for, 32. 
Yellows, disease of, in Peach, 597 ; symptoms, 59 7 ; cause, 599 ; remedy, 300. 
