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INDEX 



Anemone, Japanese, for farm garden, 274. 



Anethol, 460. 



Angelica sylvestris, 76. 



Angica bark, 628. 



Angiosperms, 2. 



Angoumois rotation system, 107. 



Aniline, black, 271 ; colors, 267. 



Animal husbandry, relation to forage-cropping, 304- 

 306. 



Anise, 457, 458; for oil, 495, 496; vinegar, 185. 



Annatto, 267. 



Annual plants, 10; flowering period, 17; number, 3, 

 4. 



Annual saltbush, 665. 



Anotto, 267. 



Anthemis Cotula (Fig. 146), 113. 



Anther, structure, 17. 



Anthonomus grandis, 252. 



Anthoxanthum, 366. 



Anthoxanthum odoratum, 370. (See Sweet vemal- 

 grass.) 



Anthracnose on alfalfa, 195; bean, 210, 211; cotton, 

 251. 



Anthurium, shading, 122. 



Anthyllis Vulneraria, 659. (See Kidney vetch.) 



Ants in coffee plantations, 245. 



Aphid, on coffee, 245; treatment for, 281. 



Aphis, cabbage-, 223. 



Apio, 76. 



Apios tuberosa, 520. 



Apium graveolens, 268. 



Apium Petroselinum. (See Parsley.) 



Apocynum cannabinum, 286. 



Apparetic acid, 596. 



Appert, Nicholas, quoted, 157, 165. 



Apple, barrel, legal size, 152; blight, 47, 50-52; box, 

 legal size, 152; butter, 163; canker, 39; for canning, 

 162, 172; chops, 176; cider, 183; clons, 57; diseases, 

 51, 346; dried, legal weight, 149; effect of electricity 

 on, 31; evaporating, 174, 176; for farm garden, varie- 

 ties, 275, 276; fruit-buds, 6; fruit formation, 7; hand- 

 ling, 355, 356; jelly, 164; juice, 178-180; leaf-buds, 

 6; legal weight, 149; picking, 355; pomace as silage, 

 414; propagation notes, 131; for relishes, 173; sauce, 

 163; scab, 48; seeds, legal weight, 148; shipping, 357; 

 soil, 275; variation in hybrids, 63; varieties from 

 sports, 58, 61; for vinegar, 185, 186; wild, in pre- 

 serves, 165. 



Apple, dwarf, 277. 



Apple, Russian, introduction, 71. 



Apples of Sodom, 625. 



Apricots, candied, 162; for canning, 160; fruit-buds, 6; 

 oil from, 495, 496. 



Aquatic plants, adaptation to water environment, 19. 



Arachis hypogaea, 514. 



Aralia Ginseng, 357. 



Aralia quinquefolia, 357. 



Aramina fiber, 285. 



Arboriculture defined, 312. 



Arborvitte, in Canada, 319; gathering seed, 327; in 

 swamps, 320. 



Arc light, electric, response of plants to, 22-24. 



Archangelica officinalis, 76. 



Archil, 267. 



Arctic-grass, 375. 



Arctostaphylos Manzanita, 628. 



Arctostaphylos Uva-Ursi, 628. 



Areca palms as house-plants, 129. 



Arhar, place in rotation, 108, 109. 



Arid regions, breeding plants for, 59. 



Arizona millet, 453. 



Arkansas, crop rotation systems in, 100. 



Arkansas Experiment Station, quoted, 518. 



Army-worm, in alfalfa, 195; methods of control, 40, 42; 

 in oats, 492. 



Aromatic plants, 457-467 ; effect of shade on products, 

 121; in their plant relations, 4. 



Arrabidcea Chica, 268. 



Arracacha, 74, 76. 



Arracachia esculenta, 76. 



Arrhenatherum, 366. 



Arrhenatherum elatius, 370. (See Tall oat-graas.) 



Arriba cacao, 226. 



Arrow-root, 199, 227. 



Arsenate of lead, use, 44, 281. 



Arsenate of soda as herbicide, 117. 



Arsenic, white, as herbicide, 117; for biting insects, 44; 



formula, 38. 

 Arsenical compounds as herbicides, 115, 117, 118. 

 Arsenite of copper, 44. 

 Arsenite of lime, formula, 38; with Bordeaux mixture, 



39. 

 Arsenate of soda for Bordeaux mixture, formula, 38. 

 Artemisia Absinthium, 269, 498. 

 Artichoke, for canning, 160; flowers as food parts, 7; 



French bur, 72; Jerusalem, 542; planting dates, 



138-140; seed per acre, 135. 

 Artocarpus ihtegrifolia, 269. 

 Asbarg, 267. 



Asclepias Cornuti (Fig. 160), 116. 

 Ash, black, 341, 342; for farm woodlot, 327; mountain, 



328, 329; regeneration, 325, 326; seeding, 329; white, 



329, 332, 341, 342. 

 Asparagine, 596. 



Asparagus, for canning, 159, 160, 170, 172; effect of 



acetylene light on, 25; etherization of, 29; notes, 147; 



perennial plant, 10; place in farm garden, 273; 



planting dates, 138-140; rust, 51; seed notes, 133; 



shading, 122; shipping, 654; stem for food, 6. 

 Asparagus plumosus for window-box, 130. 

 Asparagus Sprengeri as a house plant, 129, 130. 

 Aspen, 508; in Canada, 319. 

 Asperula tinctoria, 268. 

 Assam rubber, 558. 



Aster, for farm garden, 274; flower formation, 7. 

 Astilbe Japonica, effect of etherization, 29. 

 Astragalus crassicarpus, 306. 

 Astragalus falcatus, 76. 

 Astrebla pectinata, 76. 

 Atkinson, A., quoted, 103. 



Atkinson, George F., article by, 392; quoted, 474. 

 Atomizers for house spraying, 46. 

 Atriplex canescens, 310, 565; confertifolia, 565; hali- 



moides, 565; holocarpa, 565; leptocarpa, 565; num- 



mularia, 565; Nuttallii, 565; semibaccata, 565; trun- 



cata, 565; volutans, 565. 

 Atropa Belladonna, 459. 

 Atropine, 459. 

 Attalo, 267. 



Aus paddy, place in rotation, 108, 109. 

 Australian brome-grass, 374, 375. 

 Australian kinos, 627. 

 Australian oats, 375. 

 Australian rye-grass, 375. 

 Australian saltbush, 565. 

 Australian wattles, 628. 

 Avena, 366; barbata, 373; fatua, 373, 485, (See Wild 



oat); fatua var. glabrata, 373; nuda, 487; sativa, 371, 



373, 485. (See Oats.) 

 Avignon-Komer, 270. 

 Awnless brome-grass. (See Brome-grass.) 

 Aypi, 227. 



Ayrshire (Scotland), crop rotation systems in, 106. 

 Azafran, 270. 



Babool, 627. 



Babul, 627. 



Bachelor's button for farm garden, 274. 



Bacillus carotovorus, 542, 550. 



Bacillus radicicola, 392. 



Bacteria, effect of electricity on, 33; as flowerless 

 plants, 2 ; formaldehyde for, 49 ; formation of carbon 

 dioxid by, 18; in insect control, 40; relation to pre- 

 serving and canning, 161, 171; reproduction in, 19. 



Bacterium phaseoli, 210. 



Bacteroids, 392, 393. 



Bagasse, sugar-cane, 608; for paper, 505, 506. 



Bahama redwood, 267. 



Bahia wood, 267. 



Bailey, Dr., quoted, 566. 



Bailey, L. H., quoted, 22-24, 57, 65, 399, 481. 



Bain, Samuel M., article by, 395. 



Bajra, place in rotation, 109. 



Bakan, 627. 



Baker, J. G., quoted, 519. 



Balata rubber, 554, 559. 



