INDEX. 



The numbers refer to pages. 



Accumulation of reserve food, how 

 to promote, 91. 



Acid phosphate, 151. 



Active state of protoplasm, 15. 



Adventitious buds, Sii. 



Aeration of soil promoted by drain- 

 age, 09. 



Air-dry defined, 15. 



Air, roots require, G5, 66. 



Ammoniacal solution of copper car- 

 bonate, 177. 



Ammonium sulfate, 151. 



Animal parasites, 154. 



Animals, domestic, defined, 11. 



Annular budding, 221. 



Anther, 95. 



Apparatus for applying insecti- 

 cides, 164. 



Appendix, 269. 



Apple, blight of, 172, 254; maggot, 

 170; scab, 174. 



Approach grafting, 184, 212, 224. 



Army worm, 164. 



Arsenic compounds, 158; are deadly 

 poisons, 159. 



Arsenic, white, 158. 



Arsenious acid, 1.58. 



Arsenlte of copper, 1.58; of lime, 158. 



Art and science defined, 9; how best 

 learned, 10. 



Assimilation defined, 43. 



Baldrldge transplanter, 236. 

 Books recommended for collateral 



reading, 114, 180, 2.58, 268. 

 Barii bursting, 122. 

 Barli, epidermis replaced by, 49. 

 Bemis transplanter, 236. 

 Birds, damage from, 154, 1.55. 

 Black-head;, 121. 

 Black knot of plum, 172, 254. 



Black rot of grape, 176. 



Blanching of vegetables, 144. 



Bligbt of apple and pear, 172, 254. 



Bloom defined, 49. 



Board screen for shading young 

 plants, 141. 



Bordeau.x mi.xture, 175; diseases 

 prevented by, 176. 



Borers in trunks of trees, 157, 166, 167. 



Branches, development of, from lair 

 eral leaf-buds, 85; of trees, to pre- 

 vent splitting down in pruning, 

 244. 



Branching stimulated by pinching,.- 

 80. 



Branching of roots, conditions af- 

 fecting, 73; how stimulated, 74. 



Breeding defined, 17. 



Brittleness of plant tissues, 59. 



Broom rape of hemp and tobacco, 

 171. 



Brush screen for shading plants, 141. 



Bud, 210, 220. 



Budding, 212, 220; annular, 221; ring, 

 221; shield, 221; success in de-- 



' pendent on, 221; T, 221. 



Budding knife, 223. 



Buds, 84; adventitious, 86. 



Bubaoh, 159. 



Bulb. 189. 



Bulbels, 189. 



Bulblets, 189. 



Bundling trees for transportation, 

 230. 



Cabbage caterpillar,1.59; maggot, 167; 



club-root of, 174. 

 Calcium, part played by in plant, 



4.5. 

 Callus, how formed, 56. 

 Calyx, 94. 



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