INDEX 



The Numbers refer to Pages 



Accumulation of reserve food 

 how to promote, 93. 



Acid phosphate, 157. 



Active state of protoplasm, 15. 



Adventitious buds, 87. 



Aeration of soil promoted by 

 drainage, 70. 



Air-dry denned, 15. 



Air, roots require, 66, 67. 



Ammoniacal solution of copper 

 carbonate, 184. 



Ammonium sulfate, 156. 



Animal parasites, 160. 



Animals, domestic, defined, 11. 



Annular budding, 232. 



Anther, 97. 



Apparatus for applying insect- 

 icides, 171. 



Appendix, 281. 



Apple, blight of, 180, 266; mag- 

 got, 176; scab, 184. 



Approach grafting, 234. 



Army worm, 171. 



Arsenate of lead, 164. 



Arsenic compounds, 164; are 

 deadly poisons, 165. 



Arsenic, white. 164. 



Arsenite of copper, 164; of 

 lime, 158. 



Art and science defined, 9; how 

 best learned, 10. 



Assimilation defined, 43. 



Baldridge transplanter, 247. 



Books recommended for col- 

 lateral reading, 117, 188, 269, 

 280. 



Bark bursting, 125. 



Bark, epidermis replaced by, 49. 



Bemis transplanter. 247. 



Birds, damage from, 160, 161. 



Black-heart, 124. 



Black knot of plum, 180, 266. 



Black rot of grape, 184. 



Blanching of vegetables, 149. 



Blight of apple and pear, 180, 

 266. 



Bloom defined, 49. 



Board screen for shading young 

 plants, 146. 



Bordeaux mixture, 183; dis- 

 eases prevented by, 184. 



Borers in trunks of trees, 163, 

 175. 



Branches development of, from 

 lateral leaf -buds, 87; of trees, 

 to prevent splitting down in 

 pruning, 262. 



Branching stimulated by 

 pinching, 82. 



Branching of roots, condi- 

 tions affecting, 74; how stim- 

 ulated, 75. 



Breeding defined, 17. 



Brittleness of plant tissues, 60. 



Broom rape of hemp and to- 

 bacco, 178. 



Brush screen for shading 

 plants, 146. 



Bud, 219, 230. 



Budding, 221, 231; annular, 231; 

 ring 231; shield, 231; success 

 is dependent on, 231; T, 231. 



Budding knife, 233. 



Buds, 86; adventitious, 87. 



Buhach, 166. 



Bulb, 197. 



Bulbels, 198. 



Bulblets, 198. 



Bundling trees for transporta- 

 tion, 240. 



