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, 



47* 3<>4- 



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, 3:10. 

 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, 314, 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, G6rarde's descrip- 

 tion of the, 290. 

 Sunflowers, 146, 287-295. 

 Swallows, 147, 193, 205, 220, 

 333 336. 



