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INDEX 



Root vs top grafting 237 



Rose cuttings 118 



Rose, ringing 118 



Rose, stocks 206, 207 



Roses, grafted, for forcing 207 



Rosette, defined 83 



Rubber for grafting 224 



Runner, defined 68 



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Sablon, Le Clerc du, quoted.. 181, 196 



Scalding seeds 33 



Science, definition 1 



Scott, on grafted roses 207 



Screens for shading 109 



Seed analysis 41 



Seed, defined 7 



Seed dissemination 12 



Seed freezing 31 



Seed, graft characters from 171 



Seed, longevity in Missouri 35 



Seed, losses from low grade. ... 42 



Seed pans 56 



Seed, regermination 38 



Seed, size influence 36 



Seed, soaking. 32 



Seed, testing 40 



Seed-testing conveniences 45 



Seed-testing questions 214 



Seed, transportation 13 



Seed, vitality 34, 35 



Seedlings, apple 191 



Seeds, fictitious age of 12 



Seeds, rest period of 14 



Seeds, scalding 33 



Seeds, sowing very small 26 



Seeds, unreliability of 135 



Separation 71 



Shading 108 



Shelters 269 



Shifting plants 6 



Shipping plants and trees 284 



Smith Bros, quoted 201 



Smith's English grafting 248 



Soil for potting 54 



Somatoplasm 175 



Sowing, time of 23 



Spore, defined 6 



Sport, defined 112 



Spraying, nursery stock 277 



Standard, defined 191 



Standardization of nursery stock.. 283 



Stewart, quoted 186, 218 



Stock and cion reciprocal influence 167 



Stock breeding, necessity for 184 



Stock, defined 132 



Stock, effect of small growing 189 



Stock, effects on cion 176 



Stock plants, defined 100 



Stocks, apple 192 



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Stocks, cherry .......... . ---- 201, 204 



Stocks, citrus .................... 209 



Stocks, for fruit trees .......... 176 



Stocks, for weeping trees ........ 190 



Stocks, French investigators on ____ 189 



Stocks, hardy, for tender varieties 189 



Stocks, in top grafting ........... 186 



Stocks, peach .................... 199 



Stocks, pear .................... 197 



Stocks, plum .................... 199 



Stocks, quince ................... 195 



Stocks, rose ..................... 206 



Stocks, slow maturing .......... 189 



Stolon, defined ................... 80 



Stratification .................... 29 



Strawberry propagation, rapid.... 69 



String, waxed ................... 223 



Stringfellow on sucker influence ____ 266 



Sucker influence .................. 266 



Suckers, defined .............. , . . . 101 



Temperature in germination ....... 23 



Tomato propagation .............. 60 



Top grafting .................... 238 



Trabut, on grape grafting ........ 215 



Trees, own rooted ............... 191 



Trial grounds, value of .......... 41 



Tuber cuttings ................... 112 



Tuber, defined ................... 84 



Tubes grafting .................. 249 



Union, physical strength of... 141, 143 



Variation, bud, defined 112 



Viala, on cutting browning 119 



Vilmorin seed table 49 



Water in germination 



Water sprouts defined 



Wax, grafting 



Wax, use of 



Wellhouse, quoted 



22 

 101 

 220 

 150 

 219 

 33 



Whilten, on seed rest period 15 



Whole vs piece root. 218 



Wound dressings 226 



Xylem, defined 147 



Yeoman's dwarf pears 164 



