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INDEX 



Soil exhausted, 49 



fertilised by worms, 12 



submarine, 9 



surface, II 

 Soils, 5, 17, 49 

 Soils, active constituents, 24 



classes, 15 



classification, 15, 17 



clay, 15 



constituents, 4, 9, 12 



distribution of, 10 



dormant constituents of, 24 



examined, 18 



ferruginous, 59 



heavy, 19 



how formed, 5 



light, 19 



loamy, 17 



local, ii 



lowland, 10 



mechanically tested, 18 



mountain, 10 



stiff, 19 



transported, II 



vegetable, 60 

 Sombrero, 57 

 Sorghum saccharatum, 272 



vulgar e, 271 

 Sorting tea, 130 

 Souchong, 130 

 Soudan, 271 

 Sour soils, 67 



South America, no, 188, 194, 

 206, 236, 265, 288 



American Andes, 234 

 Southern India, 196, 200 



United States, 229 

 Spadic, 234 

 Spain, 211, 228 

 Spanish Islands, 212 

 Spathe, 30 



Special manures, 50, 54 

 Sphinx quinquemaciilatus, 216 

 Spice Islands, 184 

 Spices, 178, 194 

 Spruce, Mr. R., 223 

 Spurs, 34 

 Staking plants, 100 



Stamens, 29, 33 



Staminate flower, 30, 32, 182, 



261 



Starch, 39 

 Stem, 27, 28 

 Stem-cut oranges, 151 

 Sterile branches, 97 

 Stiff soils, 19 

 Stigma, 29, 33, 34, 208 

 Stocks, 81 

 Stomata, 28 

 Stone cisterns, 257 



mullers, 260 

 Stones, 12 



in soils, 14 

 Stools, 138, 163 

 Straits Settlements, 200 

 Straw, 51 

 Strawberry, 43, 47 

 Style, 29 

 Sub-soil, ii 



plough, 76 



ploughing, 73 



" Suckering " tobacco, 215, 216 

 Suckers, 41, 43, 79, 163, 175, 



181 

 Sugar, 38, 39 



analysis, 140 



bounties, 132 



cane, 44, 47, 61, 132 

 Sugar-loaf pine-apple, 174 

 Sulphate of ammonia, 55 



of calcium, 58 



of lime, 60 

 Sulphur, 21 



Sulphuric acid, 22, 24, 39, 58, 60 

 Superphosphates, 56, 60, 263 

 Supplies, 136 

 Surface feeders, 64 



soil, ii 

 Surinam, 119 

 Surplus water, 67 

 Sweating, 120 

 Sweet cassava, 572 



juices, 34 



potatoes, 44, 63, 288 

 Swizzle stick, 171 

 Syria, 271 





