GENERAL INDEX.ToC

For Index to the Varieties of Apples see page 711. The names, given below in small caps, refer to headings of chapters.

• Animals in the Orchard, 248
• Apex, Definition of, 359
• Apple, Botanical Character of, 29
  • Etymology of, 27
  • History of, 26
  • Native Country of, 30
  • Original Sorts of Great Britain, 30
• Apples, As Food for Stock, 18
  • Gerard's List of Seven, 33
  • How Introduced, 19
  • In Bread Making, 17
  • The Putnam List, 25
• Axis, Definition of, 362
  
  
• Bark Grafting, 84
• Basin, Definition of, 359
• Budding, Advantages of, 102
  • American, 111
  • Conditions Requisite, 107
  • Manner of Operating, 110
  • Philosophy of, 103
  • Ring, 114
  • S.S. Jackson's Method, 112
  • Season for, 106
• Buds, After Treatment, 116
  • Growth from, 53
  • Individuality of, 53
  • Removing, 113
  • Tying, 114
  
  
• Callus, 58
• Calyx, Described, 360
• Cavity, Described, 361
• Cell Growth, 52
• Characters of Fruits, 350
• Classification of Fruits, 366
• Cleft Grafting, 79
• Clover in Orchard, 228
• Cordon Training, 149
• Culture of Orchard, 242
• Cuttings, French Method, 61
  • Of one Eye, 62
  • Planting of, 131
  • Preparation of, 57
  
  
• Description of Apples, 381
• Diel's Classification, 369
• Digging Holes, 221
  • Nursery Trees, 125
  • Trees, 233
• Distance to Plant, 237
• Diseases, 160
• Disease, Apple Blight, 177
  • Bitter Rot, 178
  • Black Knot, 188
  • Cracked Fruit, 179
  • Dr. Kirtland's Views, 179
  • Effects of Frost, 166
  • Effects of Moisture, 164
  • Induced by Insects, 185
  • Induced by Wounds, 185
  • Influence of Soil, 167
  • Lankester's Classification, 163
  • Mildew, 179
  • Parasitic Plants and Fungi, 173
  • Pear Blight, 174
  • Poisonous Gases, 171
  • Rot and Mildew on Grape, 195
  • Sunshine in Winter, 171
• Dochnahl's Classification, 374
• Draining, 214
• Dwarfing, 144
• Dwarfing the Apple, 156
  • By Pinching, 152
  • By Root Pruning, 156
  • By Uncongenial Stocks, 150
• Dwarfing-Stocks, 145
  
  
• Espaliers, 148
• Eye in Fruits, 360
  
  
• Flavor, 365
• Flesh, Character of, 364
• Forms of Fruit, 352
• Frozen Trees, 234
• Fruit, Influence on Health, 16
  • Legislation concerning, 15
• Fruit Rooms, 290
  
  
• Gathering Fruit, 282
• Girardin Side Graft, 82
• Girdled Trees, 85
• Grafting, 74
  • By Approach, 83
  • Bark, 84
  • Charlatan, 31
  • Cleft, 79
  • Natural, 77
  • In the Nursery, 87
  • Physiological Limits, 75
  • Ring, 84
  • Root, 88
  • Saddle, 83
  • Side, 81
  • Splice, 78
  • Virgil's Advice on, 34
  • Whip, 78
• Grafting Wax, 97
• Grasses and Grains in Orchard, 243
• Growth from Buds, 53
  
  
• Heading Root Grafts, 94
• Heeling-in, 235
• History of the Apple, 26
• Hoed Crops in Orchard, 243
• Home Nursery, 136
• Hybrids and Crosses, 38
  
  
• Illinois Experiments, 44
• Inarching, 83
• Indian Orchards, 20
• Inoculating, 102
• Insects, 294
  • Ægerians, 341
  • Ægeria exitiosa, 341
    • polistæformis, 344
    • pyri, 344
    • tipuliformis, 344
  • Alypia 8-maculata, 341
  • American Blight, 318
  • American Currant Borer, 299
  • American Forrester, 341
  • Anomala lucicola, 304
  • Aphides, 312
    • Aphis cerasi, 316
    • lanigera, 318
    • mali, 314
    • persicæ, 317
    • prunifoliæ, 316
    • ribis, 318
    • vitis, 317
  • Apple Bark-beetle, 301
  • Apple Bark-louse, 310
  • Apple Leaf-louse, 314
  • Apple-root Blight, 319
  • Apple-tree Borer, 298
  • Apple-twig Borer, 300
  • Arctia phalerata, 325
  • Arma modesta, 321
  • Aspidiotus conchiformis, 310
  • Bark-lice, 310
  • Beautiful Wood-Nymph, 332
  • Beetles, 297
  • Blister-Flies, 305
  • Bostrichus bicaudatus, 300
  • Bound Tree-Bug, 321
  • Brachytœnia melania, 338
  • Buffalo Tree-Hopper, 321
  • Bugs, 309
  • Calosoma scrutator, 307
  • Canker-Worms, 336
  • Carpocapsa pomonella, 338
  • Cecidomyia grossulariæ, 349
  • Cecropia Emperor Moth, 329
  • Ceresa bubalus, 321
    • taurina, 322
  • Chætochilus pometellus, 340
  • Cherry Leaf-Louse, 316
  • Cherry-Tree Borer, 299
  • Chrysobothris femorata, 299
  • Cicada septendecim, 320
  • Clisiocampa decipiens, 327
  • Coccidians, 310
  • Coccinelidæ, 367
  • Codling-Moth, 338
  • Coleoptera, 297
  • Conotrachelus Nenuphar, 301
  • Currant Borer, 344
  • Currant-Moth, 337
  • Cut-Worms, 334
  • Datana ministra, 332
  • Delta-Moths, 337
  • Desmia maculalis, 338
  • Dicerca divaricata, 299
  • Diptera, 345
  • Eight-Spotted Forrester, 341
  • Erythroneura tricincta, 322
    • vitifex, 322
    • vitis, 322
    • vulnerata, 323
  • Ellopia ribearia, 337
  • Eudryas grata, 332
    • unio, 332
  • Euryomia Inda, 302
  • Fall Web-Worm, 325
  • Gartered Grape Vine Plume, 340
  • Gastrophaca Americana, 329
  • Geometers, 336
  • Gooseberry Midge, 349
  • Grape Vine Borer, 344
  • Grape Vine Feeders, 340
  • Grape Vine Flea-Beetle, 303
  • Grasshoppers, 308
  • Green Tree-Bug, 321
  • Haltica chalybea, 303
  • Hand-Maid Moth, 332
  • Harnessed Moth, 325
  • Hornet-Flies, 309
  • Hemiptera, 309
  • Horn Beetle, 300
  • Hybernia tiliaria, 336
  • Hymenoptera, 345
  • Hyphantria textor, 325
  • Lachnosterna fusca, 302
  • Lady-Birds, 307
  • Lappet-Caterpillar, 329
  • Leaf-Rollers, 337
  • Lecanium persici, 311
    • pyri, 311
    • vitis, 312
  • Lepidoptera, 324
  • Leptostylus aculiferus, 301
  • Loxotænia cerasivorana, 338
    • rosaceana, 338
  • Lucanus dama, 300
  • Macrodactylus subspinosus, 364
  • Mamestra arctica, 335
  • May Beetle, 303
  • Miller, 325
  • Modest Tree-Bug, 321
  • Nest—Caterpillar, 327
  • Neuroptera, 345
  • Noctuæ, 334
  • Ohis myron, 340
  • Orgyia antiqua, 325
    • leucostigma, 324
  • Orthoptera, 363
  • Otiocerus Coquebertii, 323
  • Owlet-Moth, 334
  • Palæothrips mali, 320
  • Palmer-Worm, 340
  • Peach Bark-Louse, 311
  • Peach Tree Borer, 341
  • Peach Tree-Louse, 317
  • Pear Bark-Louse, 311
  • Pear-Blight Beetle, 300
  • Pear Blister-Fly, 302
  • Pear Slug, 347
  • Pearl Wood-Nymph, 332
  • Philampelus satellita, 341
    • Achemon, 341
  • Pelidnota punctata, 303
  • Pemphigus pyri, 319
  • Pentatoma ligata, 321
  • Penthina oculana, 338
  • Plant-Lice, 312
  • Platysamia cecropia, 329
  • Plum Leaf-Louse, 316
  • Plum Weevil, 301
  • Pomphopœa Sayi, 302
  • Procris Americana, 341
  • Prenocerus supernotatus, 299
  • Psylla pyri, 319
  • Pterophorus periscelidactylus, 340
  • Raphigaster sarpinus, 321
  • Reduvius trinotatus, 323
  • Rose-Chafer, 304
  • Rustic Vaporer Moth, 325
  • Saperda bivittata, 298
  • Scolytus pyri, 300
  • Selandria cerasi, 347
    • vitis, 348
  • Seventeen Year Locust, 320
  • Span-Worms, 336
  • Spilosoma Virginica, 325
  • Spotted-Winged Sable, 338
  • Single-Striped Tree-Hopper, 321
  • Tent-Caterpillar, 327
  • Thelia univittata, 321
  • Thick-legged Buprestris, 299
  • Three-banded Leaf-Hopper, 322
  • Tomicus mali, 301
  • Tortrices, 337
  • Tree Hoppers, 320
  • Tree-Pruners, 304
  • Vaporer Moth, 324
  • Vine Aphis, 317
  • Vine Bark-Louse, 312
  • Vine-Destroying Leaf-Hopper, 322
  • Vine Dresser, 340
  • Vine Leaf-Hopper, 322
  • White Grub, 302
  • White Moth, 325
  • Woolly Aphis, 318
  • Wounded Tree-Hopper, 323
• Introduction, 9
  
  
• Johnny Apple-seed, 20
  
  
• Kirtland's Experiments, 40
  
  
• Layering the Grape, 67
  • The Quince, 67
• Layers, 66
  
  
• Manures, 219
• Manuring the Nursery, 127
• McKnight's Experiments, 36
• Mulching, 227
  • In the Orchard, 246
  
  
• Nursery, 120
  • Animals and Insects in, 140
  • Culture of, 130
  • Grafting in, 87
  • The Home, 136
  • Laying out, 128
  • Manuring, 127
  • Orchard, 138
  • Preparation of Soil, 128
  • Site and Soil for, 123
  • Trimming in, 134
  • Winter killing in, 138
• Nyce's Fruit Preserving House, 291
  
  
• Ohio Purchase, 22
• Orchard, Aspect of, 203
  • Belts and Screens for, 205
  • Old, Re-grafting, 85
  • Preparation of Soil, 213
  • Site for, 198
  • Soils for, 208
  
  
• Packing Fruit, 288
• Philosophy of Pruning, 251
• Pinching Root Grafts, 94
• Planting, 223
  • Age of Trees for, 135
  • Cuttings, 131
  • Distance, 237
  • Mixed, 238
  • Quincunx, 240
  • Root-Grafts, 93
  • Season for, 226-236
• Plowing, 216
  • In the Orchard, 245
  • Old Orchards, 250
• Pomatum, 34
• Poultry in the Orchard, 248
• Preparation of Soil for an Orchard, 213
• Preparing Trees to Plant, 224
• Pronged Hoe, 131
• Propagation, Sect. I, 52
• Propagation, Sect. II.—Grafting, 74
• Propagation, Sect. III.—Budding, 102
• Propagation, Sect. IV.—The Nursery, 120
• Propagation by Cuttings, 57
  • Suckers, 63
  • Layers, 66
  • Seeds, 70
• Pruning, Objects of, 252
  • Season for, 260
  • Summer, 259
  • Young Trees, 256
• Puddling, 233
  
  
• Quincunx Planting, 240
  
  
• Re-grafting Old Orchards, 85
• Richard Side Graft, 82
• Ring Budding, 114
• Ring Grafting, 84
• Ripening and Preserving Fruits, 275
• Roots Affected by Soil, 123
  • Fibrous, Desirable, 124
• Root Cuttings, 58
• Root-Grafting, 88
• Root-Grafts, Planting, 93
  • Treatment of, 94
• Root-Pruning, 124-147
  
  
• Saddle Grafting, 83
• Scions, 100
  • Time to Cut, 100
  • Preservation of, 100
• Season for Planting, 236
• Seedlings, Treatment of, 72
• Seeds, Forms of, 364
  • Preserving, 70
  • Sowing, 71
• Selection and planting, 229
• Shriveled Trees, 236
• Side Grafting, 81
• Silas Wharton, 24
• Site for an orchard, 198
• Size of Fruits, 356
  • of Trees, 230
• Skin of Fruits, Characters of, 356
• Small Fruits in Orchard, 238
• Splice Grafting, 78
• Stakes, 221
• Stem, Kinds of, 362
• Stocks, Dwarfing, 145
• Stock-Grafting, 95
• Stool-Layering, 68
• Storing Fruit, 286
• Subsoiling, 218
• Suckers, 63
• Swine in the Orchard, 248
  
  
• Thinning, 263
• Thomas' Classification, 367
• Trees, Age for Planting, 135
• Tree Digger, Harkness', 126
• Trenching, 216
• Trimming in Nursery, 134
  • Root Grafts, 94
• Tying, 79
  
  
• Value of Orchard Products, 10
• Van Mons' Theory, 40
• Varieties Running Out, 47
  
  
• Warder's Classification, 379
• Wax, Grafting, 97
• Whip-Grafting, 78
• Winter-Killing, 206
  • In Nursery, 138