353 



Shrubs, with variegated foli- 

 age, 235. 

 Silene, 131. 



alpestris, 125. 

 Silk-vine, 241. 

 Silphiums, 293, 294, 305. 

 Silver-bell, 232. 

 Skunk-cabbage, 60. 

 Smilacina bifolia, 125. 

 Snails, 116. 

 Snake-head, 252. 



root, 318. 



Snowball, 36, 146, 230. 

 Snowberry, 236. 

 Snow-drops, 3, 31, no, 146. 

 Snow-pink, 146, 155, 156. 

 Soils, colors of, 61. 



treatment of different, 46, 



47i 304- 



Soldanella, in. 

 Sounds, 8, 19-21, 27, 28, 105, 

 106, 159, 199, 204-206, 209, 

 250, 251, 253-255, 277-280, 

 319-322, 332, 336, 337. 

 Sour-gum, 328. 

 Sparrow, English, 16-18, 20, 



43, 81, 149, 159, 188, 296. 

 song, 18, 27. 

 tree, 255. 



white-crowned, 81. 

 white-throated, 81, 254, 3:30. 

 Speedwell, 249. 

 Sphinges, the, 220-223. 

 Sphinx, Carolina, 220. 

 cinerea, 220. 

 drupiferarum, 220. 

 Spiders, 295. 



Spiranthes cernua, 129, 300. 



gracilis, 129. 

 Spiraea aruncus, 154. 



filipendula, 154, 171. 



Humboldtii, 154. 



lobata, 154. 



palmata, 155. 



prunifolia, 86, 329. 



Thunbergii, 86. 



ulmaria fl. pi., 154. 

 Spiraeas, herbaceous, 154. 



shrubby, 36, 229, 230, 329. 

 Sprengel, Christian, 214. 

 Spring, an early, 27. 



beauty, 59, 62, no, 116, 

 256. 



bitter-vetch, 160. 

 Squirrels, 12, 254, 320, 333. 

 Star-flower, 77, 78, 127. 

 Star-grass, 78, 125, 127. 

 Starling, 321. 

 Starworts, 305, 3:4, 315. 

 Statice, 249. 



Stinging annoyances, 203, 256. 

 Stocks, 146. 



double ten- weeks, 303. 



night-flowering, 224. 

 Street, Alfred Billings, 336. 

 Sugar-maple, 327, 331. 

 Sumac, 329, 331. 



cut-leaved, 36, 329. 

 Sun-dial, the, 297, 306, 307. 

 Sunflower, Gerarde's descrip- 

 tion of the, 290. 

 Sunflowers, 146, 287-295. 

 Swallows, 147, 193, 205, 220, 

 333, 336. 



