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INDEX. 



PAGV 



Maximowicz, on Soy bean 132 



May-apple 101 



Meadow, struggle in 189, 196 



Medicago lupulina 259 



Medick 259, 261 



Medlar, nativity of 276 



Mell, P. H., Jr., cited 325 



Melon 137 



Melons, acclimatization 331 



— and latitude 299 



Melon, selection in 154 



Merriam, quoted 296 



Mesozoic time 97 



Meteorological bui'eaus 304 



Mexico, corn of 128 



Mice and clover seed 182 



Michigan Hort. Soc, quoted . . . .220 



— maize 330 



Mildew (see Downy-mildew). 



Miller, Phillip, cited . . . 120, 127, 128, 



404, 410, 455, 456, 457, 459 

 " Miller's Dictionary," quoted . 120, 455 



Miner, mentioned 422 



Minnesota, apples of 282 



— fruits in 309 



Missing links 176 



Missi.ssippi Valley, apple-maggot in, 183 



Missouri apples 283 



Mixed planting 355 



Mixing of tomatoes 396 



McMahon, quoted . . 204, 205, 207, 208, 



212, 384, 385, 419, 421 

 " Modification of Plants by Cli- 

 mate," quoted . . . 294, 299, 325 



MoUusks 14 



Monism 164 



Monnier, cited 332 



Monotypic genera 268, 270 



Monroe. James, mentioned .... 216 



Moore's graijes 435 



Morphology of tomato 473 



Mosses 18 



— propagation of 72 



Mt. Katabdin 275 



— Marey, plants on 275 



Mulberries 206, 210 



Multifarious variations 23 



Munson, T. V., cited 435 



PAGS 



Musa, fossil 50 



Mutilations .... 77 



Myeetozoa 14 



Myrica, nativity of 277 



Myxomycetes 14 



Nasturtium lacustre 101 



Native fruits . 210 



Nativity of fruits 276 



Naturalists, the French .... 163 



Natural selection . . 30 



adequacy of 178 



definition of 57 



Naudin, cited 331 



Nectarine, Knight's varieties . 158 



— origin of 90, 91 



Nettles 52 



Neo-Darwinism .... 55, 61, 



64, 65, 167, 256, 265 

 Neo-Lamarckism . 55. 64, 65, 79, 80 



Neurism . . 492 



New Brunswick flora ... . . 301 



New England, apple-maggot in 183 



— apples in 175 



— plagues in . . . 192 



" New England's Rarities,'' quoted 192 

 New Jersey, i)each trees in . . . 323 

 New South Wales at World's Fair, 



281,282etseq. 



New York, apple-maggot in ... . 184 



Canada thistle in 201 



corn from 298 



grapes and frost 307 



from 298 



peach trees in 323 



poplars from 297 



weeds in 192 



western, fruit-growing in . . . 24tt 



at World s Fair . . 279, 282 et seq. 



Nicholson, quoted 460 



Nierembergia Atkinsiaua 469 



Nile, example in acclimatization 324 



Noah, mentioned 359 



North Dakota, Russian thistle in . 198 

 Northwards, taking plants . . . 295 

 Novelties, numbers of 388 



— value of 356,384 

 Numbers of animals and plants ■ .139 

 Nurseries, European 285 



