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INDEX 



Scars: bundle, inflorescence, leaf, 

 rin^, stem, 21. 



Score-cards for fruit exhibits, 94-97. 



Season of drupes, 73 ; of pomes, 07. 



Seeds, 41; grapes, 7G; heath-fruits, 

 79; pomes, 64; strawberry, 

 81. 



Self-fertility, 48. 



Self-sterility, 48. 



Sepal, 40. 



Sex in hardy fruits, 47. 



Sinuses in grape leaves: basal, 

 petiolar, terminal, 37. 



Skin of drupes, 71. 



Species, defined, 99. 



Spines, 15. 



Sports, 26 ; from root-cuttings, 7. 



Stamens, 40, 45 ; of pomes, 65. 



Stem, defined, 10. 



Stem-scars, 21. 



Stems, arborescent, 12; branching 

 of, 17; climbing, 12; drupes, 

 69; grapes, 10; growth, 

 length, 10; kinds of in hardy 

 fruits, 12; pome-fruits, 53; 

 shapes, 17; shrubby, 12; tex- 

 ture, 12. 



Stigma, 41. 



Stipules, 28, 36. 



Stolons, 13. 



Stone of drupes, 67, 72. 



Strains, defined, 110. 



Strawberries, Alpine, habitat, 208 

 index to varieties, 461 ; Vir 

 ginian, cultivation, 206 

 Virginian, habitat, 206. 



Strawberry, 205 ; achenes of, 79 : 

 apex, 80 ; color, 80 ; common 

 habit, 207 ; descriptive blank 

 209; everbearing, 208; flavor 

 81; flesh, 80; fruit char 

 acters, 79 ; fruits, 79 ; gar 

 den, history, 207; shape, 80 



Style, 41. 



Styles of pomes, 66. 



Suckers, 13, 24. 



Suture of drupes, 70. 



Systematic pomology and plant- 

 breeding, 4. 



Systematic pomology and fruit- 

 growing, 3. 



System.'itic pomology, defined, 2; 

 materials for work, 88; meth- 

 ods of work, 88. 



Tendrils, characters, 16; defined, 16. 

 Thorns, 15. 

 Trees, shapes, 17. 

 Turions, 13. 



Vaccininm, 198. 

 atrococcum, 201. 

 canadcnse, 201. 

 corymbosum, 201. 

 macrocarpon, 198. 

 Oxycoccus, 199-200. 

 pennsylvanicnm, 202. 

 vacillans, 201. 

 virgatum, 201. 

 Variations, caused by climate, 86; 

 caused by cultivation, 87 ; 

 caused by soils, 86; caused by 

 stocks, 87. 

 Varieties, botanical, 99; bud, 100; 

 defined, 99 ; permanence, 84 ; 

 seed, 99; strains, 110; vege- 

 tative, 100. 

 Variety-hybrids, 49. 

 Vascular bundles of pomes, 64. 

 Venation, 29. 

 Vitis, 163. 



OBstivalis, 170. 



cestivalis Bourquiniana, 172. 

 cestivalis Linsecomii, 171. 

 Lahrnsca, 167. 

 rotundifolia, 166. 

 vinifera, 173. 

 vulpina, 169. 

 Vitis, key to cultivated species, 163- 

 164. 



W 



Water-sprouts, 24. 



