INDEX 



Achillea millefolium, 577. 

 Adulteration of seeds, 71. 

 Adzuki, 554. 

 Aftermath, 4, 102. 

 Age of seeds, 72. 

 Aggressiveness in plants, 13. 

 Agropyron occidentale, 221. 



repens, 353. 



tenerum, 219. 

 Agrostis alba, 170. 



capillaris, 170. 



dispar, 170. 



vulgaris, 170. 

 Aleppo-grass, 244. 

 Alfalfa, 305-359. 



agricultural history, 305. 



Arabian, 314. 



botanical varieties, 313. 



breeding methods, 352. 



care of field, 340. 



characteristics of, 319. 



clipping, 330. 



cold relations, 307. 



crown-gall, 356. 



cultivated varieties, 313. 



cuttings, 336. 



diseases, 356. 



distribution of, 312. 



dodder, 354. 



Grimm, 315. 



heat relations, 307. 



humidity relations, 310. 



importance of varieties, 316. 



improvement, 351. 



influence of source of seed, 317. 



insects, 358. 



irrigation, 337-338. 



life period, 320. 



love-vine, 354. 



meal, 346. 



methods of seeding, 329. 



mixtures, 342. 



number of cuttings, 336. 



nurse crops, 329. 



origin of name, 306. 



pasturing, 344. 



Peruvian, 314. 



pollination, 348. 



proportion of leaves, stems and 



roots, 325. 



quality of different cuttings, 336. 

 rate of seeding, 327. 

 regional strains, 318. 

 root-rot, 356. 

 roots, 320. 

 rootstocks, 323. 

 rotations, 343. 

 row cultivation, 341. 

 seed, 349. 

 seed-bed, 326. 

 seed production, 346. 

 seeding, 327-329. 

 seedlings, 323. 

 shoots, 324. 

 Siberian, 315. 

 Sickle, 315. 

 silage, 345. 



soil moisture relations, 322. 

 soil relations, 310. 

 soiling, 345. 

 statistics, 118-119. 

 time of cutting, 333. 

 time of seeding, 328. 

 time to apply irrigation, 337. 

 Turkestan, 314. 

 Variegated, 315. 

 viability of seed, 350. 

 weeds, 352. 

 winter irrigation, 338. 

 winter-killing, 331. 

 Yellow-flowered, 315. 

 yellows, 358. 



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