INDEX. 



The numbers refer to pages. 



Accumulation of reserve food, how 

 to promote, 91. 



Acid phosphate, 151. 



Active state of protoplasm, 15. 



Adventitious buds, 86. 



Aeration of soil promoted by drain- 

 age, ()!. 



Air-dry denned, 15. 



Air, roots require, 65, 66. 



Ammoniacal solution of copper car- 

 bonate, 177. 



Ammonium sulfate, 151. 



Animal parasites, 154. 



Animals, domestic, denned, 11. 



Annular budding, 221. 



Anther, 95. 



Apparatus for applying insecti- 

 cides, 164. 



Appendix, 269. 



Apple, blight of, 172, 254; maggot, 

 170; scab, 174. 



Approach grafting, 184, 212, 224. 



Army worm, 164. 



Arsenic compounds, 158; are deadly 

 poisons, 159. 



Arsenic, white, 158. 



Arsenious acid, 158. 



Arsenite of copper, 158; of lime, 158. 



Art and science denned, 9; how best 

 learned, 10. 



Assimilation denned, 43. 



Baldridge transplanter, 236. 

 Books recommended for collateral 



reading, 114, 180, 258, 268. 

 Bark bursting, 122. 

 Bark, epidermis replaced by, 49. 

 Bemis transplanter, 236. 

 Birds, damage from, 154, 155. 

 Black-heart, 121. 

 Black knot of plum, 172, 254. 



Black rot of grape, 176. 



Blanching of vegetables, 144. 



Blight of apple and pear, 172, 254. 



Bloom denned, 49. 



Board screen for shading young 

 plants, 141. 



Bordeaux mixture, 175; diseases 

 prevented by, 176. 



Borers in trunks of trees, 157, 166, 167. 



Branches, development of, from lat- 

 eral leaf-buds, 85; of trees, to pre- 

 vent splitting down in pruning, 

 244. 



Branching stimulated by pinching, 

 80. 



Branching of roots, conditions af- 

 fecting, 73; how stimulated, 74. 



Breeding denned, 17. 



Brittleness of plant tissues, 59. 



Broom rape of hemp and tobacco, 

 171. 



Brush screen for shading plants, 141. 



Bud, 210, 220. 



Budding, 212, 220; annular, 221; ring, 

 221; shield, 221; success in de- 

 pendent on, 221; T, 221. 



Budding knife, 223. 



Buds, 84; adventitious, 86. 



Buhach, 159. 



Bulb. 189. 



Bulbels, 189. 



Bulblets, 189. 



Bundling trees for transportation, 

 230. 



Cabbage caterpillar,159; maggot, 167; 



club-root of, 174. 



Calcium, part played by in plant,. 

 ' 45. 



Callus, how formed, 56. 

 Calyx, 94. 



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