INDEX 



Note. — Laboratory exercises indicated thus : (lab). 



Abortion, in flower, 90. 

 Absorption of water, 



by root-hairs, 65. 



by seeds, 14, 15, 296. 

 Adventitious buds, 80. 

 Aeration of soil, 63, 147. 

 Agitator, 167. 

 Albumen, 32. 



Amnioniacal copper carbonate, 181. 

 Animal parasites, 152. 

 Anther, 88. 

 Anticyclones, 125. 

 Approach-grafting, 230, (lab.), 



284. 

 Army-worm, 163. 

 Arsenic compounds, 156. 

 Arsenites, 156, 157. 



mixing with bordeaux, 181. 

 Art, definition of, 1. 

 Ashes, wood, 150. 

 Assimilation, 35. 

 Atomizer, 164. 

 Axillary bud, 78. 



Bacteria, 174. 

 Bark, 



bursting of, 117. 



living part of, 48. 



removal of, 49. 

 Birds, 154. 

 Black-heart, 115. 

 Blanching, 141. 

 Bordeaux mixture, 180, (lab.), 



282. 

 Borers, 169. 

 Bottom heat, 197. 

 Branches, development, 79. 



removal, 250. 



Breeding, 9. 

 Broom rape, 173. 

 Budding, 224, (lab.), 284. 



conditions for success, 226. 



knife, 229. 



removal of buds for, 227. 



time for, 225. 

 Buds, 78, (lab.), 281. 



protection of, 79. 

 Bud-sticks, 226. 

 Bulbels, 194. 

 Bulbs, 194, (lab.), 283. 



CaUus, 48, 49. 



experiment in forming, 55. 



on dormant cuttings, 204. 

 Calyx, 87. 

 Cambium, 45, (lab.), 280. 



uniting of, 46. 

 Cauliflower, 139. 

 Cell, structure, 6, 276. 



elongation of, 139. 

 Chinch-bug, 162. 

 Chlorophyll, 34. 

 Cion-grafting, 216. 



time for, 217. 

 Cions, 214. 



length of, 221. 



cutting and storage of, 216, 217. 

 Classification of plants and animals, 



9, 11. 

 Cleft-grafting, 221, (lah.), 284. 

 Climate, effect on cuttings, 197. 

 Codlin moth, 170. 

 Cold, effect of, 113. 



injury, 119. 



protection against, 119. 

 Cold-air drainage, 125. 



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