INDEX 



The Numbers refer to Pages. 



Accumulation of reserve food, 

 how to promote, 93. 



Acid phosphate, 157. 



Active state of protoplasm, 15. 



Adventitious buds, 87. 



Aeration of soil promoted by 

 drainage, 70. 



Air-dry defined, 15. 



Air, roots require, 66, 67. 



Ammoniacal solution' of copper 

 carbonate, 185. 



Ammonium sulfate, 156. 



Animal parasites, 160. 



Animals, domestic, defined, 11. 



Annular budding, 233. 



Anther, 97. 



Apparatus for applying insect- 

 icides, 172. . 



Appendix, 282. 



Apple, blight of, 181, 267 ; mag- 

 got, 178 ; scab, 185. 



Approach grafting, 235. 



Army worm, 172. 



Arsenate of lead, 164. 



Arsenic compounds, 164 ; are 

 deadly poisons, 165. 



Arsenic, white, 164. 



Arsenlte of copper, 164 ; of lime, 

 158. 



Art and science defined, 9 ; how 

 best learned, 10. 



Assimilation defined, 43. 



Baldridge transplanter, 248. 

 Books recommended for collateral 



reading, 117, 189, 270, 281. 

 Bark bursting, 125. 

 Bark, epidermis replaced by, 49. 

 Bemis Transplanter, 248. 

 Birds, damage from, 160, 161. 

 Black-heart, 124. 

 Black knot of plum, 181, 267. 

 Black rot of grape, 185. 

 Blanching of vegetables, 149. 

 Blight of apple and pear, 181, 



267. 

 Bloom defined, 49. 

 Board screen for shading young 



plants, 146. 

 Bordeaux mixture, 184 ; diseases 



prevented by, 185. 

 Borers in trunks of trees,. 163, 



176. 



Branches, development of. from 

 lateral leaf-buds, 87 ; of trees, 

 to prevent splitting down in 

 pruning, 263. 



Branching stimulated by pinch- 

 ing, 82. 



Branching of roots, conditions 

 affecting, 74 ; how stimulated, 

 75. 



Breeding defined, 17. 



Brittleness of plant tissues, 60. 



Broom rape of hemp and tobacco, 

 179. 



Brush screen for shading plants, 

 146. 



Bud, 220, 231. 



Budding, 222, 232 ; annular, 232 ; 

 ring, 232 ; shield, 232 ; success 

 is dependent on, 232 ; T, 232. 



Budding knife, 234. 



Buds, 86 ; adventitious, 87. 



Buhach, 166. 



Bulb. 198. 



Bulbels, 199. 



Bulblets, 199. 



Bundling trees for transportation, 

 241. 



Cabbage caterpillar 166 ; maggot, 

 175 ; club-root of, 183. 



Calcium, part played by in plant, 

 45. 



Callus, how formed, 56. 



Calyx, 96. 



Cambium layer, 53 ; from differ- 

 ent plants may unite, 54. 



Carbon, proportion of in vege- 

 table material, 44 ; sources of, 

 in plants, 43. 



Caulicle, 33. 



Caulifiower heads to be shaded 

 from sunlight, 146. 



Caustics, destroying Insects by, 

 163. 



Cell, division, 15. 



Cells, guard, 50 ; palisade, 49 ; 

 some properties of, 14. 



Cellular structure of living be- 

 ings, 13. 



Chili saltpeter, 156. 



Chinch bug, 171. 



Chlorid of potash, 157. 



Chlorophyll defined, 41 ; forms 

 only in light, 42 ; Iron essen- 



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