5*78 INDEX. 



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Roosevelt, Clinton, on the constitution of nature 421, 429 



Root crops, cultivation of _ 279, 280 



Rose bug Ill 



slugs 79 



Russet apples 90, 288 



S. 



St. Hilaire, Isidore Geoffroy 195, 209 



obituary notice of 200 



Salting streets. 533, 544, 557 



Saltpetre, and substitutes therefor .._..._ 493 



Sambucus wine 136, 149 



Sanford's flax dressing machine 47, 234 



Satinwood _ 157 



Schelling 202 



Screw steamers 456 



Seed corn ." 206 



Seed drill, Halsted's _ 243 



selection of , 178 



sower, Gaboon's _ 42, 240 



Duane's 200 



Wethersfield.. 240 



unripe _ 139 



Ship timber, sawing of 370, 394 



Shrubbery, care of _ _ 100 



Silk, American ' 219, 223, 466 



culture of 223, 229, 230, 249 



in Georgia „ 224 



Connecticut 224 



Virginia 224 



manufacture at Lyons 250 



worms, American _ 226, 249, 253 



Cayenne 226 



food for 350 



Smith's lamp 38, 477 



Snow storms in New York, 1853 to 1862 534 



Soda-ash, sweepings _ 217 



Sorghum, cultivation of 258 



Spanish chestnut, cultivation of the 279, 287 



Span worms Ill 



Sparrows 315, 316 



