SUPPLEMENT 



Here are assembled certain lists and addenda that are supplementary to the body of the Cyclopedia, to pro- 

 vide the consultant with additional facilities for the use of the volumes. These appendices are as follows: 



Collaborators in the making of the Cyclopedia 3555 



Cultivator's guide to the articles 3562 



Additional species 3565 



New combinations in Latin names 3574 



Finding-list of trade names 3575 



Index to the six volumes 3611 



Other articles of a similar character, providing keys and synopses, are printed in Vol. I, as follows: 



Explanations, comprising a statement of the authorship of articles, nomenclature, pronunciation, spelling, 



the keys, abbreviations of botanical terms and expressions, books and periodicals to which reference is Page 



made, the authors of botanical names xi 



Synopsis of the plant kingdom (with index) 1-78 



Key to the families and genera (with index)79-147 



Name-list, comprising the English equivalents of Latin names of species 148 



Glossary of the usual botanical and horticultural technical words 160 



A fuller discussion of nomenclature will be found under "Names and Nomenclature," Vol. IV, 2098; also 



in the Finding-list 3575 



For five years the work of compiling the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture has been actively under way. 

 The present office was opened in March, 1912, but the organizing of the work had been started before that time. 

 Although founded on the Cyclopedia of American Horticulture, completed in 1902, the present Cyclopedia is 

 newly organized and newly written. Whenever the articles in the former work have been used as a basis, they have 

 been brought down to date. The preface to Vol. I states the scope and intention of the present work. 



The List of Collaborators (pages 3555 to 3561) comprises upward of 400 names, and many other correspond- 

 ents have aided in less formal ways. To all these helpers the reader will extend his gratitude for the satisfaction 

 he may find in any of the pages. The publishers, printers, artists, writers, and others have cooperated in the 

 freest spirit. 



If the consultant desires to know the office methods in compiling a work of this character, he may read the 

 introductory account in Vol. IV of the former Cyclopedia, for the general details do not differ greatly between the 

 two. The Editor gathers his force, finds himself a table and a very few simple accessories, supplies himself with 

 writing materials and books, and then goes to work and holds to it through all the letters from A to Etc. If the 

 reader finds a misplaced letter or accent mark, he may consider that each page comprises about 10,000 pieces 

 of type metal, or more than 36,000,000 pieces for the entire work; these pieces are of many technical devices; and 

 human eyes are fallible. In the first year or two of the work, the Editor was engaged otherwise and could give 

 only small fragments of his time to the Cyclopedia. 



If the reader desires statistics of such work, the following figures may interest him: 



I. THE NUMBER OF AKTICLES. 



Total number of entries or articles, including cross- 

 references (the sub-articles are the independent articles 

 or parts in the main articles and in the symposia, 

 indicated by black-face lower-case type) : 



Volume I 693 



Sub-articles 38 



Cyclo. Amer. 

 Hort. 1902 



Volume II 1,101 



731 



1,270 



Sub-articles 



Volume III . . 

 Sub-articles 



Volume IV . . 

 Sub-articles 



Volume V ... 

 Sub-articles 



Volume VI . . 

 Sub-articles 



29 



756 

 212 



94 



650 

 64 



905 

 19 



1,130 1,263 



II. THE NUMBER OF PLANTS. 

 The number of genera entered: 



Volume I 422 



Volume II 709 



Volume III 442 



Volume FV 550 



Volume V 449 



Volume VI 639 



Supplement 3 



Cyclo. Amer. 

 Hort. 1902 



820 



623 

 351 

 461 



3,214 2,255 



968 



659 



902 1,165 



714 



924 



Supplement (additional 

 generic entries) . . 



5,369 



5.372 4,357 



The number of main species de- 

 scribed or entered, in black-face 

 type: 



Volume I 1,801 



Volume II 2,741 



Volume III 1,512 



Volume TV 1,901 



Volume V 2,064 



Volume VI 2,372 



Supplement 102 



2,924 

 2,675 

 1,405 

 1,789 



12,493 8,793 



(3553) 



