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INDEX. 



Sassafrasses, fossil 48 



Sassafras leaves 94 



Saunders, quoted 184, 327 



Scale, orange-tree 215 



Scandinavian plants 269 



Scotch plants • - ... 269 



Scotland, exportation of apples to . 215 



Schizoeodon ... 275 



Schmidtt and the carnation .... 442 

 Schools, number of . ... . 218 



Schouw, quoted 268, 269, 274 



Schiibeler, quoted 299, 328 



" Science," Quoted £7 



Seasons, effects of 170 



Sedges . . . 134 note 



Seed-bags, battle in 36 



— bearing and cultivation . . . 251 



— change of 151,153.177 



— crops and climate 309 



— crops, growing 169 



— production and quality . . . 228. 251 



— stock ... . ... 46 



Selection, importance of ... 160, 178 



Sequoias, fossil 48 



Syringe, quoted 412 



Setaria glauca 259 



Sex in fruits 347 



— significance of 26, 63, 166, 



168. 238, 348 



— terminology of 67 



Sexual mixing 26 



— reproduction, meaning of .... 63 



Shaw, quoted 198 



Shepherd's Purse 259, 261, 262 



Shortia 275 



Siberia, elephants in 272 



Single specimens, plants as .... 189 



Sisyphus 199 



Size and quality 227 



Smith, M. R., quoted 444 



Snowballs, sterile 351 



Societies, number of 218 



Soil and variation 378 



— effect on plants 169, 171 



Soils, influence of 257 



" Soil," quoted . . . 43 



Soiling crops, to kill weeds .... 198 

 Solanum Lycoi)ersicum 128 



PAGB 



Solanum racemiflorum 127 



Solanums, insect of 184 



Soldier, loss of eye 77 



Solidagos, in New Brunswick . . 301 



Solomon, quoted 201 



Soma-plasm 62, 65 et seq. 



Sonchus oleraceus 261 



Soutli Carolina, com from 298 



" Southern Apple and Peach Cul- 



turist," quoted 324 



Sow-thistle 261,263 



Soy bean 132 



Spain, plants of 270 



Special creation 19, 163 



Species, character of 32 



— definitions of . . 33, 110, 111, 121, 129 



— dogma 108 



— making 134 



Spencer, Herbert, quoted . . . . 30, 31 



Spines, origin of 61 



Spiraea callosa 327 



Spirifers 49 



Spitzbergen 274 



Sporophyte 15, 18, 73 



Sports 33, 72 



Spraying 192, 213 



Sprengel, mentioned 157 



Spruces by cuttings 85 



Squash, Cooper on 153 



Squashes, acclimatization 3S1 



Squirt-guns 215 



" State Register," quoted ... . 332 



Stem, evolution of 43 



Sterile flowers . . 351 



Stick-tights in orchards 259 



Stock-seed 46 



Stone, quoted 234,235 



Storage of food 294 



Strawberries, analyses of .... 235 



— quality in ... 221, 225, 226, 232, 233 



— sex in .... 351, 353 



— successful cultivation of .... 286 



— testing . . 173 



Strawberry 100, 101 



— dominant types 175 



— Duchesne on 163 



— Knight's work 158 



— nativity of 277 



