now CKOPS GKOW. 



TABLE II. Composition of Fresh or Air-dry Agricult 1 ! Products in 1,000 parts.. 381 



TABLE III. Proximate Composition of Agricultural Plants and Products 385 



TABLE IV. Detailed Analyses of Bread Grains 3X8 



TABLE V. Detailed Analyses of Potatoes 38!) 



TABLE VI. Detailed Analyses of Sugar Beets 389 



TABLE VII. Composition of Fruits 31)0 



TABLE VIII. Fruits arranged in the Order of their Content of Sugar 393 



TABLE IX. Fruits arranged in the Order of their Content of Free Aeid 3U3 



TABLE X. Fruits arranged according to proportions between Acid, Sugar, etc.. 393 

 TABLE XI. Fruits arranged according to the proportions between Water, 



Soluble Matters, etc 394 



TABLE XIL Proportion of Oil in Seeds 394 



INDEX. 



Absorption by' the root. . . .239, 250, 251 

 Access of air to interior of Plant. . .288 



Acids, Definition of 8(5 



" Test for 87 



Acid elements 113 



Adhesion 26, 349 



Agriculture, Art of 17 



Agricultural products, Composition 



in 1,000 parts 381 



Agricultural Science, Scope of. 24 



" Experiment-Stations of 



Germany 24 



Air-passages in plant 289 



Air-roots 252 



Akene 301 



Albumin 96 



Albuminoids, Characters and com- 

 position 94 



Albuminoids in animal nutrition. . .104 



" Diffusion of. 364 



in oat-plant 211, 215 



Mutual relations of. . . 103 

 Proportion of, in vege- 

 table products 109 



Alburnum 282 



Alcohol from saw-dust 75 



Aleuroue 105 



Algae 177, 223 



Alkali-earths 125 



" " Function of 197 



" "Metals 125 



Alkali-metals ... 123 



Alkalies 80, 124 



Test for 87 



" Function of 197 



Alkaloids 110 



Alum, decomposed by diffusion... 364 



Alumina 129 



Aluminum 129 



Ammonia, Carbonate 49 



" in plants 108 



" Salts of 137 



" in plant 137 



Amyloids 55 



" Transformation of 78 



Anhydrous phosphoric acid 117 



" silicic acid 120 



" sulphuric acid 115 



Anther 21)2 



Apatite 135 



Apple, Cells of 23 



Arabic acid 70 



Arabia 70 



Arendt, Estimation of sulphur and 



sulphuric acid 195 



Arendt, Study of oat-plant 204 



" Analysis of oat-plaut 141 



Argol 88 



Arrow root 63 



Arsenic in plants 123, 196 



Art and Science 17 



Artificial fecundation 295 



Ash-Ingredients 112, 138 



Excess of. 187 



" how dis- 

 posed of. 189 



Ash-Ingredients, Function of, in 



plant 196 



Ash-Ingredients, The indispensable.146 

 " State of, in plant... 193 



Ash of plants 30, 111 



" " Analyses, Tables of. 150, 376 

 " ^ " Composition of, nor- 

 mal 163 



Ash of plants, Composition of, va- 

 riations in 157. 163 



Ash of oat-crop 212, 216 



" Proportions of, Tables 139, 145 



" " variations in... 148 



Asparagus, Ash-analyses 176 



Assimilation 325 



Atmosphere, Offices of. 329 



Atoms 47 



Atomic weight 47, 48 



Avenin lot 



Axote :;', 



Bark 209, 275 



" Ash of 3x0 



Barley, Ash-analyses.. 150, 153, 160, 378 



" Proximate analyses 3X7 



" detailed..388 



" Root-cap of. 230 



" Root-hairs of 241 



Barley-Sugar 73 



Baryta in plants 196 



Bases, Definition of 80 



Bassorin 71 



Bnst-rclls 270.275 



Bast-Tissue ^233 



IJavbi-rry tallow 1)1 



Bean, Ash-analyses 152, J5J, .T.: 



li Proximate analysis .387 



