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INDEX 



Porous soil, 66 

 Porter, 186, 265, 273 

 Portuguese, 190 

 Potash, 21, 25, 38, 39 



carbonate, 18 



manures, 54> 61 



nitrate of, 53 



salts, 6 1 



Potassium, 21, 24, 61 

 Potato crops, 60 

 Potatoes, 64 

 Pots, 13 

 Prairies, 49 

 Preparation of arrowroot, 281 



of land, 1 14 

 Preserved maize, 264 

 Press, 220 

 Primaries, 103 

 "Prince of Palms," 165 

 Products, waste, 53, 56 

 Propagation, 81, 125, 134, 147, 

 154, 161, 168, 175, 180, 

 191, 195, 200, 204, 213, 

 224, 236, 238, 241, 246, 



251 



by seeds, 41 



of cacao, 113 



of coffee, 92 

 Protoplasm, 39 



Pruning, 78, 79, 80, 150, 155, 

 181 



cacao, 116 



coffee, 102 



rules, 79 



tea, 126 



Prussic acid, 275 

 Pulping coffee, 107 

 Pumpkins, 150 



QUARTZ, 13 

 sand, 13 



Queen pine-apple, 174 

 Quicklime, 60, 151 

 Quill bark, 229 

 Quinine, 221 



RACES, 194, 195 

 Radicle, 35 

 Rags, 53 

 Rain, 23, 24, 55 

 Rainfall, 180 

 Rainless tracts, 70 

 Rajania pleioneura, 284 

 Rake, 73 

 Raleigh, 211 

 Rat coffee, 106 

 Rats, 106, 171 

 Rattoons, 138 

 Raw lime juice, 153 



sugar, 141 

 Red bark, 223 



loam, 179 



peppers, 278 

 Redonda, 57 



Reduced phosphates, 56, 58, 59 

 Remains of animals, 10 



in ice, 10 

 Reunion, 204, 244 

 Rhizomes, 194, 279 

 Rice, 265 



aquatic, 270 



Ballam, 269 



common, 266 



Carolina, 265 



Moonghy, 269 



mountain, 270 



table, 269 



Ricinus communis, 229 

 Ripley pine-apple, 174 

 Rivers, 9, 24, 70 



action of, 9 



Robber stems, 79, 103 

 Robinson, Sir W., 212 

 Rochfort, 245 

 Rock-crystal, 13 

 Rocks expanding, 7 

 Rollers, 75, 77 

 Rolling, 127, 128 

 Root, 27, 37 



bark, 229 



fibres, 27 



functions, 2 



