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INDEX 



Eastern Archipelago, 178 

 East Indies, 196, 222, 229 

 Eddoes, 291 



Edwards, Bryan, 241, 254 

 Edwards, Z. B. , 248 

 Effect of rain, 66 

 Effervescence, 18 

 Egypt, 48 

 Electricity, 23 

 Elements, inorganic, 63 



organic, 56 

 Elcttaria Cardamomum, 196 

 Embryo, 35, 36, 37 

 England. 177, 184 

 Epidermis, 28 

 Epiphytes, 118 

 Epiphytic plants, 103, 181 

 Equator, 46 

 Eugenia Jambos , 1 00 

 Europe, 144, 153, 229 

 Evaporation, 24, 67 

 Examination of soils, 18 

 Excrements, 49, 51 

 Exhausted soil, 50 

 Exhaustion, 50 

 Experiments, 63 

 Exposure, 47 

 Erythrina coral lodendron, 201 



umbrosa, 116 

 ErythfoxyLon Coca, 234, 235 



Fallow Land, 62 

 Fallowing, 138 

 Famines, 71 

 Farm system, 137 

 Farm-yard compost, 181 



manure, 51, 54, 55> i55 

 Female flowers, 32 



nutmeg-trees, 181, 182 

 Fermentation, 52, 108, 219 

 Fermenting, 120, 127, 128 

 Fern foliage, 54 

 Ferruginous soils, 59 

 Fertilisation, 30 



by insects, t,^ 



Fertilisation cross, 33 



cf flowers, 32 



of vanilla, 206 

 Fertilising orchids, 209 

 Fibre, plantain, 205 

 Eigne la rose, 160 

 Fiji, 261 

 "JFillers," 217 

 Firing, 127, 128 



tea, 129 

 First flowers, 117 

 Fish, 53 



Fixing ammonia, 60 

 Flag anatto, 247 

 Flat bark, 229 

 Flies, 34 

 Flint, 13 



Floral envelopes, 30 

 Florida, 145, 146, 147, 151 

 Flowers, 27, 29, 33 

 Flushes, 126 

 Fodder crops, 63 



nitrogenous, 53 

 Fogs, 47 

 Food plants, 274, 278, 283, 



284, 288, 290 

 Forest, virgin, 179 

 Forests, 8, 13, 47, 49 



tropical, 8 

 Fork, 73, 74 

 Formation of soils, 5 

 Fossil remains, 10 

 Fossils, 57 

 France, 146, 172 

 Free soils, 19 

 Friable loam, 179 

 Frost, 7 

 Fruit, 27, 144, 153, 159, 165, 



174 

 evaporator, 189 

 Fuel, 157 

 Functions of leaves, 28 



Ganges, 71 

 Garbled, 183 

 Garden system, 137 



