504 



INDEX. 



PAGB 



Dressing carnations 455 



Droughts 308, 324, 332 



Druminond, and phlox 468 



Duchesne . 16;!,401,402,404,405,40C,412,41^ 



Duhamel, cited 405, 412 



Dunal, on tomatoes . . 112etseq.; 477 



Earth-parasites 15 



Echinoderms 14 



Ecology, study in 156 



Education, spread of 217 



Egg-cell 60 



Egg-plant, duration of 45, 295 



Egypt, plagues in 192 



Ehrhart, cited 405 



Eimer, quoted 26, 71, 83 



Elseagnus, nativity of 277 



Elephant, in Dakota, etc. . . . 271, 272 



Elks, dispersion of 272 



Endemic plants 282 



Enemies, why increased 180 



England, exportation of apples to 215 



— rhododendrons in 286 



English apples . . 227 



— plants in America 45 



Entomogenous fungi 214 



Environment, adaptation to . . 171, 174 



Eocene-time 50 



Equal, plants start 256 



Equilibriam in nature 181, 187, 



190, 197, 214 



Equisetums 49 



Ericiiceous plants 285 



Estimates of animals and plants . . 139 



Europe, fruits of 311 et seq. 



Evaporated fruits 217 



Evolution, history of 162 



" Exhibitor's JIanual," quoted . 441 



Experimental evolution 107 



Experiment stations, number of 218 



— station tests 171 



Exposition, Columbian 278 



Extinction of types ... .48, 49, 377 

 Falkland Islands, plants of . . . 269 



Fashions in varieties 390 



Ferns 18, 47, 49 



— growth-force in 25 



Fertile flowers 351 



Fertilizers and Tariatiou . . . 262, 264 



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Fertilizing laud, effect of . . . 169, 257 



Fig, nativity of 277 



Filbert, nativity of 277 



First-class tree, what is a . . 247 



Fishes, number of 139 



Fixing of varieties 367 



Fitz, quoted 324 



Flakes 438 et seq. 



"Floricultural Cabinet," quoted 467, 469 



Flower seasons 289 



Flowering, latitude and 299 



Flowers and insects 158 



Fluvial period 272 



Focke, cited 93 



Food supply and variations . . 27, 87, 

 98, 169, 189 



Knight on 159 



Forcing, and cloudiness 307 



— evolution of 156 



— houses 213 



Forest, conflict in 40 



— struggle in 189 



Forests and climate 308 



— results of cutting off 181 



Fortuitous variation 24 



Fossil plants 48, 50 



Foureroy, mentioned 142 



Fragaria ananassa .... 404, 409, 412 



— calyculata 405, 415 



— Chiloensis 403, 409 et seq. 



— elatior 402 



— grandiflora 405, 408, 409 



— Grayana 413 



— moschata 402 



— tincta 406, 412 



— vesca . . 402 



— Virginiana . 402, 405, 409 et seq 



France, vine in 323 



French apple stocks 286 



— naturalists 163 



Fresenius 235 



Fressant strawberry 400 



Frezier, Capt. 403 



Frost and plants .... 295, 303 et seq, 

 Fniits, American for America, 



311 et seq. 



'"Fruits and Fruit Trees," men- 

 tioned U7 



