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Index. 



American?, instability of, 116. 

 Amherst Agrieul. Col., experiments 



at, 78. 



Amygdalus Persica in Kansas, 347. 

 Animate, agency of in planting, 31, 32. 

 Annular budding, 46. 

 Antiseptic processes, 187. 

 Ant-lion, 174. 

 Ants, 179. 

 A pelt cited, 194. 

 Apples (genus Pirus), 260. 

 Apple trees, 93, 121. 146. 

 Aqueous vapor in atmosphere, 12. 

 Araucarieae, 41, 304, 316. 

 Arboriculture defined, 1. 

 Arbor days, 62. 



Arboretums, should be labeled, 125. 

 Arbor-vitse, 84. 303, 304, 305. 



iriant, 306. 



'in Kansas, 349. 



Arbors for sheltering seed-beds, 40. 

 Arbutus Menziesii, 289. 

 Arcachon, dunes of, 109. 

 Arctostaphylos, glauca, 289. 



pun gens, 289. 



Argillaceous soils, 6. 



Arizona, privileges of citizens of, 95. 



white oak, 213. 



Arrow-wood, 269, 298. 

 Aitemisia tridentata, 7. 

 Arthrotaxis, vitality of seed? of, 41. 

 Aschaffenburg, school of Forestry 



at, 108. 

 Ash, percentage of in burned woods, 



152. 

 Ash (trees), 270, 346, 348. 



grown as coppices, 98. 



grown as high forests, 102. 



leaved maple, 93, 239. 



period of full growth, 105. 



white, heating qualities of, 146. 



Asia Minor, timber of, 84. 



valonia from. 206. 



Asimina triloba, 289. 

 Aspect, or direction of slope, 9. 

 Aspen, quaking, 85, 289. 

 Associations, Village-improvement, 



122. 

 Atlantic States, timber of, 84. 



range of humidity in, 15. 



Atlas-cedar, 304. 

 Atmometer, Lament's, 19. 

 Atmosphere, composition of, 11. 

 Audobon's Peak, timber-line on, 26. 

 Auricle-leaved magnolia, 296. 

 Austria, forest administration in, 106. 



Austria, forests in, 83. 

 Austrian pine in Kansas, 349. 

 Autumnal colors, 79, 234. 



layer, so called, 69. 



sowing, 41. 



Avalanches of snow, 25. 

 Avenues of approach, 117. 

 Back-firing to stop forest fires, 158. 

 Bacteria, a cause of decay, 188. 

 Baden-Powell, H. B , cited, 27. 

 Bald-cypress, 84, 304, 310. 

 Baliveau, reserves so called, 101. 

 Ball of earth, freezing of around 



roots, 54. 



Balm-of-Gilead poplar, 288. 

 Balsam-fir, 338. 



insects injurious to, 187. 



Balsam-spruce, 339. 



Bamboo shells, transplanting in, 54. 



Banks, consolidation of, 57,^231, 283. 



Bank's pine, 329. 



Barberry, not found in California, 88. 



Bark-boring insects, 163, 164, 165, 



166, 168, 170, 171, 172, 180, 182, 



185, 187. 



Bark, grafting of, 46. 

 if loosened, kills the wood un- 

 der it, 144. 



lice, 174. 



of root?, 76. 



of trunk and branches, 67, 72, 73. 



removal of, in part, 62. 



tanniiiir, 325. 



Barney, E. E., on Catalpa, 291. 

 Barrens of \Vest, cause of, 87. 

 Barren scrub-oak, 213. 

 Barres, school of guards at, 108. 



plantation of pines at, 320. 



Barriers for checking torrents, 110. 



Bartram oak, 213. 



Basins of water-supply should be 



wooded, 18. 



Baskets, transplanting in, 54. 

 Basket-willow, 280, 281. 

 Bass wood family, 88, 240. 



grows from sprouts. 98. 



insects injurious to, 184. 



Beach-grass, planted on dunes, 109. 

 Bear-oak, 213. 

 Bear-river pine. 337. 

 Beaver-meadows, cause of overflow, 



22. 



Beaver-tree, 295. 

 Bedford-willow, 279. 

 Beech (genus Tagus], 89, 93, 146, 225, 



349. 



