INDEX
Reading edition
PAGE Acid phosphate 45 Age of apple-trees 98 Alternate bearing 42 American Pomological Society 66 Apple-scab 95 Appleseed, Johnny 61 Arsenate of lead 95 Australia, Apples in 97 Bacteria 12 Bark of apple-tree 11 of cherry 11 of elm 11 of pear-tree 11 Bearing year 42 Black Gilliflower 73 Bloomless apple 75 Bolting trees 88 Bridge-grafting 88 Brush pile 27 Budding 50, 51 Buds 15, 19, 27 Calyx-tube 26 Canada, apples in 98 Canker 12 Cherimoya 8 Cherry, bark of 11 Christophine 8 Cider, treatise on 62 Cion-grafting 50, 79 Citrus fruits 8 Cleft-grafting 82 Coconut 8 Codlin-moth 12, 89 Custard apple 8 Diseases 46 Distance apart 43 Double apples 74 Doucin stocks 57 Downing, quoted 54, 67 Dwarf apple-trees 54 Elm, bark of 11 Endicott, Gov. 61 Enriching the land 45 Exhibitions 108 Fertilizing 40, 44, 45 Fig 8 Flower, structure of 20 Folger and Thomson, quoted 98 Fructicetum 78 Fruit-spurs and bearing 42 Fungi 12 Girdles 87 Graftage 49, 79 Grafts 81 Guava 8 Harvesting 102 Hillsides for orchards 44 Hogs in orchards 45 Hypanthium 26 Insects 46, 89 Judging apples 108 Knots 11, 85, 87 Land for apples 42 Langley, Batty 82 Lawson, William 82 Leaf-arrangement 29 Lichens 11 Lime-sulphur 95 Linnaeus 62 Lintner, J. A. 89 Malus 62 Mamone 8 Mango 8 Manning, mentioned 67 M'Mahon, quoted 66 Medlar 75 Mending trees 85 Moench, cited 75 Mound-layering 55 Muenchhausen, cited 75 Natural trees 51 New Zealand, apples in 97 Nitrate of soda 45 Origin of apple-tree 60 Ornamental apples 64 Ovary 20 Paint for wounds 86 Papaya 8 Paradise stocks 57 Parkinson, John 58 Pasturing 45 Pear, bark of 11 Phosphate, acid 45 Phyllotaxy 29 Picking apples 102 Piece-roots 50 Pistil 20, 26 Plant-breeder 51 Planting 42, 43 Plant-lice 12 Pollen-tube 20 Pollination 40 Pomegranate 8 Propagation of apple-tree 48, 54 Pruning 36, 40, 86, 104 Pyrus baccata 63 coronaria 63 diocia 75 Ioensis 63 Malus 62, 63 Soulardii 64 Receptacle of flower 26 Regions for apples 97, 99 Repairing trees 85 Root-grafting 50 Roots 43 Scale insects 12 Scale of points 108 Score-card 108 Seedless apple 74 Seedling trees 48, 51 Seeds, planting 48 Sharrock, Robert 81 Sheep in orchards 45 Sheepnose 73 Sod in orchards 44 Soil for apples 42 Spraying 40, 91, 95, 104 Star-apple 8 Stigma 20 Stocks 49 Storing 105 Struggle for existence 47 Style 20 Surgery 86 Surprise 73 Sweet-and-Sour 73 Thinning 38, 39 Thomson and Folger 98 Tilling 40, 44, 47, 104 Tree surgery 86 Varieties 66 list of 70 Water-core 74 Whip-graft 50 Wilder, mentioned 67 Wormy apples 89, 102
Transcriber's Notes
Some illustrations have been moved from their original positions to avoid breaking up the text, and to put them in numerical order.
Variations in spelling and punctuation have been retained from the original book except for the following changes:
Page 51: Both instances of "varities" changed to "varieties".
Page 74: "occuring" changed to "occurring".
Page 91: "foilage" changed to "foliage".
Page 93: "analagous" changed to "analogous".
Page 94: "or" changed to "nor". "investigatior" changed to "investigator".
Page 100: "gravly" changed to "gravelly".
Page 113 (Index): "Appleseed, Johny" changed to "Appleseed, Johnny". "Bark of Cheery" changed to "Bark of Cherry".
Page 115 (Index): "Linnæus" changed to "Linnaeus" to match text.