INDEX 



455 



Spinacia oleracea, 422 



Spinach. New Zealand, 429 



Spiroea blanda, 111; cantoniensis, 111; 



Reevesii, 111; rotundifolia, 111; 



trilobata, 111 

 Splice-grafting. 158 

 Spore, definition, 11 

 Sporeling, 12 



Spores, propagation by, 11 

 Spraying nursery stock, 191 

 Spruce, 393 

 Spurge, 310 

 Squill, 418 



Squirting Cucumber, 304 

 Staff-tree, 272 

 Stag's-Horn Fern, 398 

 Staphyleaceae, 423 

 Star-Apple, 281 ; of Bethlehem, 376 

 Stark tree-digger, 173 

 Starwort, 245 



Statistics of seed-production, 5 

 Stem, cuttings of, 104 ; -grafting, 136 

 Sterculiaceae, 315, 355, 424, 430 

 Sterilizing soil, 40 

 Stewart, Geo., quoted, 31; V. B., 



quoted, 190 



Stock denned, 113 ; florist's, 358 

 Stocks for trees, 182 

 Stolon, 69 

 Stonecrop, 418 

 Stools, 74 

 Storage for cuttings, 92 ; for nursery 



stock, 187 

 Storax, 426 

 Stork's Bill. 386 

 Stratification, 35 



Strawberry Tomato, 393 ; Tree, 240 

 Striking of cuttings, 93 

 String Bean, 391 ; waxed, 171 

 Stuartia, 424 



Stuart, William, quoted, 403 

 Styracacese, 329, 405, 426 

 Sumac, 411 

 Summer Cypress, 343 

 Sundrop, 368 

 Sundew, 304 

 Sunflower, 23, 331 

 Sun Rose, 331 



Survival of the Unlike, quoted, 4 

 Swamp Huckleberry, 435 

 Swan River Daisy, 258 



Sweet Cicely, 364 ; clover, mentioned, 

 23; Fern, 287; Gale, 364; Gum, 

 350 ; -scented Shrub, 267 



Sycamore, 398 



Symplocaceae, 427 



Tamarack, 345 



Tamaricaceae, 428 



Tanacetum, 428 



Taraxacum officinale, 297 



Tarnished plant-bug, 212 



Taxacese, 401, 428. 432 



Tea, Labrador, 246 



Teosinte, 309 



Ternstrcemiacese, 424, 429, 430 



Tester, Geneva, 27 



Testing of seeds, 24 



Tetranychus bimaculatus, 211 



Theaceae, 321, 430 



Thistle, Globe, 304 



Thompson, C. H., quoted, 264 



Thorn, Box-, 353 ; Christ's, 377 



Thrift, 242 



Throatwort, 432 



Thyme. 431 



Thymelaeaceae, 297, 305, 394 



Tiger Flower, 431 



Tiliacese, 288, 422, 431 



Tillotson, C. R., quoted, 51 



Tomato, Husk, 393 ; record of, 26 ; 



Strawberry, 393 ; tree, 296 

 Top-grafting, 136, 151 

 Tourney, mentioned, 51 

 Toxylon, 354 

 Tracy seed-planter, 47 

 Trailing Arbutus, 306 

 Transportation of seeds, 38 

 Trapaceae, 432 

 Tree-diggers, 172; Fern, 227; of 



Heaven, 224; Tomato, 296 

 Trigonella Fcenum-Grcecum, 312 

 Trimming in nursery, 186 

 Triticum vulgare, 23 

 Trochodendraceae, 274 

 Tropaeolaceae, 433 

 Tropical Almond, 429 

 Trumpet-Creeper, 268 

 Tuber, 63 

 Tuberose, 401 

 Tubers, cuttings of, 98 

 Tubular-budding, 136 



