Index 



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Seedlings, first exhibited in America.. 20 



Seedlings, planting in field 201 



Seedlings, selection of parents 210 



Seedlings, temperature for 199 



Seedlings, treatment of, for winter 



fiowering 203 



Seedlings, vase of selected* 203 



Seedlings, watering 201 



Selection of stock in digging 43 



Seymour, Prof., quoted 134 



Shading after watering cuttings .... 88 



Shading, formula for 110 



Shading houses before planting 109 



Shading, methods of 44 



Shelmire, W. R., work of 29 



Shelmire, W. R., biographical sketch 



(Portrait) 281 



Shifting young plants 89 



Shipment, plants' packed for* 145 



Shipping and packing field-grown 



plants 144 



Shipping young stock 71 



Sievers, J. H., biographical sketch 



(Portrait) 283 



Simmons, W. P., work of 27 



Size 231 



Soap preparations for spraying 130 



Sod Crusher, Florist Supply Co.'s... 53 



Sod in soil preparation 53 



Soil, cultivation of in benches 46, 114 



Soil, English method of preparing 41 



Soil, Field method of preparing 41 



Soil, Hogg's formula for preparing. . . 54 

 Soil, Maddock's formula for preparing 54 

 Soil, potting, composition of, for young 



plants 53 



Soil, preparation of for greenhouse 



culture 41 



Soil sterilizer, filling the bench* 103 



Soil sterilizer, steam pipes in position 



ready for filling in soil* 55 



Soil, sterilizing on the bench* 59 



Soil used when shifting plants 53 



Soils 49 



Soils, bench, preparation of, in the 



field 52 



Soils, field, preparing 40 



Soils, preparation of for bench culture 50 



Soils, productiveness of 62 



Soils, selection of for field culture... 49 



Soils, sterilizing 56 



Soot, Scotch 47 



South, growing in the 279 



Sports and variations 224 



Spot 137 



Spot, fairy ring 138 



Spraying formulae for rust 137 



Staking 46, ill 



Stalk borer 133 



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Starr, Chas. T., work of 25 



Steam boilers, types of 186 



Steam heating systems 1?2 



Stem rot 1S8 



Stem rot lemedies and preventives for 141 



Sterilization, steam 56 



Ster'lizor in operation* 58 



Sterilizing apparatus 56 



Sterilizing soil on the Vjench* 59 



Sterilizing soils 56 



Stewart, Prof. F. C, quoted 140 



Stock, selection of. in digging 43 



Stock, young, time to set out 92 



Stock, young, treatment of prepara- 

 tory to planting out 87 



Stopped plants* 99 



Stopping 40 



Stopping in field 98 



Stopping in greenhouse 47 



Stopping young plants 90 



Store, interior of a wholesale flor- 

 ist's* 124 



Stuart. Wm., quoted 67 



Sturgis, Prof. "Wm. C, quoted 143 



Sub-irrigation 170 



Sub-irrigation and surface benches, 



comparison of results from 176 



Sub-irrigation bench 164 



Sub-irrigation in celery districts of 



Michigan 170 



Sub-irrigation in Europe 171 



Substance 230 



Sulphur and lime formula for red spi- 

 der 129 



Sulphur and linseed oil mixture for 



red spider 129 



Sulphur and tobacco mixture for red 



spider ISO 



Summer blooming, carnations for 189 



Summer treatment of young plants.. 92 



Supports Ill 



Supports, combination method of*. 46, 114 

 Supports, end, of iron, for stretching 



wire* 113 



Supports, prices of 113 



Supports, wire ring* 112 



Swayne, Wm., work of 27 



Tailby, Jos., work of 28 



Temperature of propagating house... 82 



Temperature of sand 82 



Temperature, overhead in propagating 



house 83 



Temperature under benches in propa- 

 gating house 83 



Thompson, J. D., Carnation Co.'s es- 

 tablishment* 37 



Thorpe, John, work of 25 



Thrips, tabaci* 131 



Tile bench, ventilated 164 



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