408 INSECTICIDES, FUNGICIDES, AND WEED KILLERS. 



Almoiul-tree, diseases of : — 



Cochineal, 136, 389. 



Grapholitha, 146, ;594. 



Rust of keriifl fruit trees, 246, 266. 



Spots of leaf, shot-liole fungus, 254, 267. 

 Aloes, 148, 382. 



Alsace Lorraine phj-lloxera regulations, 71. 

 Alteration of eellular tissue by disease, 1. 



— of organs of plants, 1. 



Alteruaria Brassiu;e (melon leaf scorch), 115, 

 253, 284, 384. 



— Solani (potato leaf eurl), 253, 384. 

 Altise of cereals (Haltica vittula), 302. 



— of erucifers (Haltica oleracea, Phyllotreta 



nemorum, P. nigripes, P. siuuata, P. 

 imdulata), (garden altise, kitchen garden 

 altise), 302, 340, 373. 



— of haricots and peas (Haltica rufipes), 



302, 384. 



— of plum (Haltica chalvhea), 274. 



— of potato (Psvlloides affinis), 302, 384. 



— of vine (viue flea, Pucerotte), 52, 146, 156, 



260, 274, 373, 379, 384. 

 Altises (earth lice, halticinese), 52, 122, 146, 



195, 260,1274, 302, 340, 345, 357, 362, 



373, 379-80, 384. 

 Alucite of cereals (Sitotraga cereallela), 31, 



70, 82. 

 Alum, K2S04Al2(S04);s24H20, 163-4, 327. 



— actiou on fungi, 163. 



insei'ts, 163-4. 



plants, 163. 



— chrome, K2S04Cf2(S04)324H.,0, 163. 



— preparation, 163. 



— properties, 163. 

 Alumed plaster of Paris, 157. 

 Alumina, occurrence, 164. 



— properties, 164. 



— silicate of (clav, china clav), 164. 



— sulphate of, 162, 194. 



— use, 164. 

 Alunite, 117. 



Amarantus hlitum, 132. 136, 289. 

 Ammonia, NHg, 98-9, 310, 352. 



— action of, on various plants, 98. 



— — on germination, 98. 



— preparation, 98. 



— properties, 98. 



— use, 98-9, 352. 



Ammoniacal gas and liquor, as insecticide 



and weed-killer, 99. 

 Ammoniate of copper (silution of cupric 



hydrate in XS of ammonia), 315. See 



Eau Celeste. 

 Ammonium l>ichromate, 138. 



— carbonate, 101. 



— — preparation, 101. 

 properties, 101. 



— — use, 101, 241. 



— chloride, 327. 



— chromate, 188. 



— sulphate, 100-1. 



— — manufacture, 100. 



— — properties, 100. 

 uses, 100-1,265. 



— sulphide, 99-100. 

 preparation, 99. 



— — properties, 99. 

 use, 99-100. 



— sulphojyanide (thiocyanate), 100. 



Ammonium sulphocyanide preparation, 100. 



— — properties, 100. 

 use, 100. 



Amyl alcohol, important role of, in insecti- 

 cides, 164, 297. 328-9. 332-3. 

 Amylo carljol, 314. 

 Ananas (cane sugar disease), 339. 

 Anbury (ting.-r and toe), 122, 144, 400. 

 Anguilluli'lfs (m-niatodes). See Eel-worms, i 

 Animal oil (f Dijipel's), 313. 



— parasites, 2 c/ s,-,/. 

 Anisoptcrix a-sfulari-i, 138. 

 Annual sulnncrsion, 30. 



Anobium pauicum (maize weevil), 68, 384. 

 Anomala Vitis (green vine beetle), 67. 391. 

 Auo.via Villosa, 340. 

 Antagonistic svmbioses, 3, 4. 

 Authomyia antiqua, 308, 346, 385. 



— betie, 308. 



— brassiea, 306, 384-5. 



— eeparum, 308, 385. 



— furcata, 308, 385. 



— of bulb of onion (onion Hv), 308, 346, 



385. 



— of cabl:>age, 306, 384, 385. 

 Anthonoines, 80, 146, 186, 273, 302, 343, 



385. 



— of the apple-tree (apple blossom weevil), 



80, 146, 186, 273, 343, 356, 385. 



— of the cheiTv, 80, 146, 186, 273, 385. 



— of tlic cotton-tree (cotton weevil), 273. 



— of the i)e,ir-trce, 80, 146, 186, 385. 



— of the strawberry, 302. 

 Authracnosis of the haricot (CoUetotrichum 



Liudeniutliianum), 258, 267, 385. 



— of the melon (CoUetotrichum oligOL'hretum, 



lagenarium), 258, 385. 



— of the tomato (Gloeosporium phomoides), 



255. 



— of the vine (grape rot) (Gloeosporium am- 



pelophagnm, Sphaceloma ampelophaga), 



51, 86-7, 143, 169, 185, 225. 

 Anthracogenic parasites, 113. 

 Antibiosis, 3. 

 Auticryptogamic substances, composition, 4, 



8,16,22; Crouzel's composition, 103, 



148, 345. 



— .solutions, 16. 



" Antimildioidium," composition of, 216. 

 " Autiuonnine," action on plants, 368. 



— — on insects, 368. 



— composition, 367 ; u.se, 368. 

 Antiphylloxeric sulimer.sion, 25. 

 " Antivermin," 314. 



Ants, 38, 93, 129, 153, 293, 326, 330, 346, 



380. 

 Aphides (naked plant lice), 76, 117, 152, 187, 



196, 260, 305, 308, 326, 331, 342, 345, 



346, 360, 361, 365, 367, 374, 376, 381, 



38.1-6. 

 " Aphidin," 314. 

 Aphis. See Aphides. 



— gossypii, 351, 385-6. 



— oxycanthffi, 117, 152, 3S5-6. 



— papaveris (poppy aphis), 331, 385-6. 



— persicae (peach aphis), 76, 152, 376, 381. 



— rosre (rose aphis), 76, 331, 385-6. 



— woolly (Schizoneuralauigera). See Woolly 



Aphis. 

 Aphropliora spumaria, 363, 386. 



