Index. 



399 



Thick-thighed walking-stick, 64. 



Thrip, grape, 806. 



Thrips, 10. 



Tilletiafateus, 315, 319, 373. 



Tmetocera ocellana, 248. 



Tobacco, 8, 10, 11, 13, 18, 170 ; and soap, 

 171 ; for plant-lice, 5 ; liquor, analysis 

 of, 118 ; stems, use of, 308 ; uses of, 

 176-178 ; worm, 370. 



Tomato, blight, 370 ; rot, 370 ; first treat- 

 ments of, 28, 29; treatment of, 100; 

 worm, 37. 



Tortoise beetles, sweet potato, 369. 



Tozzetti, A. T., quoted, 145. 



Train-oil, 7. 



Trypeta pomonella, 257. 



Tschirch, A., quoted, 235. 



Tuck, quoted, 16. 



Turnip fly, 13 ; maggot, 268, 372. 



Turpentine, 5, 8, 11. 



Tussock-moths, 313. 



Twig blight, peach, 328 ; pear, 334. 



Typhlocyba rosce, 363. 



Uncinula tpiralin, 303, 304. 



Urine, 4, 7, 16. 



Urocystis Cepulw, 319. 



Uromyces Beta*, 265 ; Ciryophyttinus, 



272 ; Phawoli, 268. 

 Unlikigo Maydis, 276 ; Tritici, 315-319, 



373. 



Valves, 208. 



Vanessa antiopa, 373. 



Veratrwm album, 148. 



Verbena mildew, 281, 872 ; mite, 309 ; 



rust, 281, 372. 



Verdet, 44, 137 ; sulphated, 44. 

 Verdigris, 137. 

 Vermorel, nozzle, 204 ; with lance, 204 ; 



V., mentioned, 203, 204. 

 Vigouroux knapsack pump, 187, 188 ; 



nozzle, 201. 

 Vinegar for canker, 4 ; cleaning grapes, 



105 ; insects, 11 ; in kerosene emul- 

 sions, 153. 



Vine- worm, cranberry, 280. 

 Vineyards, American, and fungi, 89 ; 



early treatment of, 89, 90 ; commercial 



treatment in America, 105. 

 Violet, disease, 372 ; mildew, 324, 372 ; 



rust, 372 ; spot, 372. 

 Vitriol, blue, 142 ; green, 15J, 



Volatile alkali, 116. 

 Volutella, sp., 271. 



Walnut leaves, 7, 11, 13. 



Warner's syringe, 183. 



Wash for insects, 6, 178 ; resin, first 

 made, 85. 



Washes, clay, 178; resin, preparation 

 and use of, 166-169. 



Water, 11, 178; cold, 179; hot, 11, 179; 

 for smut, 315-318 ; sea, 7. 



Watering can, description, 182, 183. 



Watermelon anthracnose, 261, 373 ; pow- 

 dery mildew, 281, 373. 



Webster, F. M., quoted, 251. 



Web- worm, fall, apple, 256; parsnip, 

 325; privet, 352. 



Weed, C. M., and plum curculio, 70 ; 

 quoted, 105, 366. 



Weed, H. E., mentioned, 197. 



Weevil, bean, 263 ; pea, 326. 



Weigelia, insects affecting, 286, 373. 



Weights and measures, 382, 383. 



Wellhouse, nozzle, 200, 210 ; Walter, men- 

 tioned, 200. 



Whale-oil, 7; soap and lye, 159; potas- 

 sium sulphide, 180 ; soda wash, 172 ; 

 sulphur, 176 ; first use of, 14 ; uses of, 

 179. 



Wheat, loose smut, 315, 319, 373 ; rust, 

 319; smut and copper sulphate, 318; 

 stinking smut, 315-319, 373; arsenic, 

 117. 



White arsenic, 117, see also Arsenic; 

 hellebore, 148, see also Hellebore; 

 mold, sweet potato, 368; oxide of 

 arsenic, 117 ; scaly coccus, 10. 



Whitman's fountain pump, 184. 



Whitney, A. E., quoted, 67. 



Willard, S. D., quoted, 73. 



Willow, antiopa butterfly, 373; worm, 

 278, 292, 373. 



Woodchucks, treatment of, 135. 



Woodward, J. S., quoted, 63, 64. 



Woolly aphis, 10; destruction of, 50; 

 on apple, 259. 



Worms, 11. 



Wormwood, 5, 7, 8. 



Yellow-fined currant-bug, 287. 

 Yellow prussiate of potash, 146. 

 Yellows, peach, 332. 

 Young, Lawrence, quoted, 16. 



