INDEX. 
The numbers refer to pages. 
Accumulation of reserve food, how to 
promote, 88. 
Acid phosphate, 145. 
Active state of protoplasm, 14. 
Adventitious buds, 83. 
Aeration of soil promoted by drainage, 
66. 
Air-dry defined, 14. 
Air, roots require, 63, 64. 
Ammoniacal solution of copper car- 
bonate, 170. 
Ammonium sulfate, 144. 
Animal parasites, 148. 
Animals, domestic, defined, 11. 
Annular budding, 213. 
Anther, 91. 
Apparatus for applying insecticides, 158- 
Appendix, 259. 
Apple, blight of, 166, 246. 
Approach grafting, 181, 204, 217. 
Army worm, 157. 
Arsenic compounds, 151; 
poisons, 152. 
Arsenic, white, 152. 
Arsenious acid, 152. 
Arsenite of copper, 151; of lime, 152. 
Art and science defined, 9; how best 
learned, 10. 
Assimilated food, current of, 59. 
Assimilation defined, 41 
Assimilation, the function of leaves, 78. 
are deadly 
Baldridge transplanter, 229, 
Books recommended for collateral read- 
ing, 109, 174, 258. 
Bark bursting, 117. 
Bark, epidermis replaced by, 47. 
Bemis transplanter, 229. 
Birds, damage from, 148. 
Black-heart, 116. 
Black knot of plum, 166, 246. 
Blanching of vegetables, 138. 
Blight of apple and pear, 166, 246. 
Bloom defined, 47. 
Board screen for shading young plants, 
135. 
Bordeaux mixture, 169; diseases pre- 
vented by, 170. 
Borers, 161. 
Branches, development of, from lateral 
leaf-buds, 83; of trees, to prevent 
splitting down in pruning, 241. 
Branching stimulated by pinching, 78. 
Branching of roots, conditions affect- 
ing, 71; how stimulated, 71. 
Breeding defined, 17. 
Brittleness of plant tissues, 57. 
Broom rape of hemp and tobacco, 164. 
Brush screen for shading young plants, 
125. 
Bud, 203, 214. 
Budding, 204, 212; annular-, 213; ring-, 
213; shield-, 213; success in dependent 
on, 213; T-, 213. 
Budding knife, 216. 
Buds, 82; adventitious, 83. 
Buhach, 153. 
Bulb, 182. 
Bulbels, 183. 
Bulblets, 183. 
Bundling trees for transportation, 223. 
Calcium, part played by in plant, 43. 
Callus, how formed, 54. 
Calyx, 90. 
Cambium, cambium layer, 50; from dif- 
ferent plants may unite, 52. 
Carbon, proportion of in vegetable ma- 
terial, 42; sources of, in plants, 42. 
Caulicle, 31. 
