INDEX. 



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PAGE 



Bitypie genera 268, 270 



Bizarres 438etseq. 



Blackberries, American .... 312, 361 



— flower-bearing 352 



— hybrid 177 



— quality in 221,222, 



226, 232, 233 

 Blackberry novelties 367 



— Lawton 374 



— running out 374, 389 



— progress in 210 



— variation in 263 



Black-knot 188, 426 



Black-rot 181, 188 



Blight-proof varieties . ... 185, 372 



Blooming and frost 303 



Bloom-periods 289 



Book farming 217 



Book-keeping of nature 139 



"Book of Fruits," mentioned . 147 



Borago officinalis 52 



Bordeaux mixture, mentioned . . . 144 



Border carnation 461 



Borer in trees 184, 185 



"Botanical Gazette," quoted ... 50 

 " Botanical Magazine, " quoted, • 467 

 " Botanisk Tidsskrift," mentioned . 121 



Bower, quoted '■ 25 



Branches, variation in . . . 86, 168, 249 

 Brambles, prickles of . . 51 



Brazil, bean from ... ... 131 



Bread-fruit 09 



Breaking 378 



— of seed-crops 169 



Brendel, F., quoted 291 



Bretschneider, cited 331 



Brinton, mentioned 34 



■' British apples," quoted . . 229 



British Isles, plants 270 



Brueine 52 



Bryophyllum, jjrowth-force in 25 



— propagation 101 



Budd, quoted 327, 332 



Buds, detachable 100 



Bud-variations . . 72, 82, 89, 169 239, 378 

 Buffalo beetle 184 



— berry 210 



Buffalos, dispersion of 272 



FAGB 



Bulbs, evolution of 171 



— for propagation 101 



— formation of 294 



Bumble bees and clover 182 



Buysman, quoted • 328 



Cabbage, Knight's work 158 



— progress in 207 



— seed-crops 36, 37 



— worms 180 



Cactus, Russian 193 



California, acclimatization .... 326 



— almonds of 206 



— exodus to 216 



— exporting fruit 216 



— growing seeds in 46 



Callas, rest in 48 



Camels in Dakota 271 



Camerarius 67 



Canada, apples in 175 



— canned goods in 217 



— thistle 197, 201 



— thistles, seed-bearing in 252 



Canary Islands, tomatoes 216 



Cane sugar, seed-bearing in ... . 252 



Canker-worm 186 



Cunning, history of 216 



Carboniferous time 44, 47 



Carding carnations 455 



Ca-doons on pampas 200 



Carex species 134, 135 



Caring for plants, progress in . . 211 



Carman and petunia 471 



Carnation, border 461 



— forcing of 213 



— progress in 438, et seq. 



— running out 445 



— sports in 92 



— sterile 351 



— Thorpe's ideal 450 



Carpet-beetle 184 



Carpinus Betulus 297, 331 



Carriere, mentioned 93, 98 



Caspian Sea, thistle at 193 



Castor bean, duration of 295 



Catagenesis 17 



Catalogues 203 



Catalpa 297,331 



Caterpillars in New England ■ ■ .192 



