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INDEX 



Elliott's Sida, 307. 



Ellsworth quoted, 70. 



Elm, in Canada, 319; market, 341, 342; red, 328; 

 regeneration, 325; rook, 342; seed notes, 328, 329; 

 treatment for leaf -beetle, 44; white, 328. 



Elodea (Fig. 23), 11. 



Encyclopedia Americana quoted, 534. 



Emblic myrobolans, 628. 



Embryo-sac, 17. 



Emmer, 663, 664. 



Endive, effect of electric light on, 23, 24 ; effect of elec- 

 tricity on germination of seed, 30, 31; seed notes, 

 133. 



Endodermis, 12. 



Endogens defined, 8. 



Endosperm, formation, 17. 



Enfield, Edward, quoted, 404. 



England, crop rotation systems in, 106, 107. 



Englemann quoted, 27. 



English blue-grass, 446; legal weight of seed, 149. 



English daisy for farm garden, 274. 



Enghsh dwarf bean, 212-214. 



English ivy, notes, 7, 15, 16. 



English oak for tannin, 625. 



English potato. (See Potato.) 



English turnips, legal weight, 151. 



Ensiling processes, 568. 



Environment of plants, 19-21; relation to plant-breed- 

 ing, 59. 



Eosines, 271. 



Epicauta vittata, 524. 



Epitrix cucumeris (Fig. 65), 43, 524. 



Eragrostis Abyssinica, 311. 



Erigeron Philadelphicus, 447. 



Ergot, 563. 



Erica arborea for screening plants, 123. 



Erodium Botrys. 197. 



Erodium cicutarium, 197, 198. 



Erodium moschatum, 197. 



Erodium Texanum, 197. 



Ervum Lens. (See Lentil.) 



Erwin, A. T., quoted, 276, 278, 279. 



Erythrina micropteryx for coffee shade, 243. 



Esparcet, 564. 



Esparsette, 564. 



Esparto, fiber, 281 ; for paper, 503, 504, 507. 



Espinillo, 628. 



Essences, 496. 



Ether, effect on plants, 29. 



Etherization of plants, 29. 



Etiolation of plants, 20, 120. 



Eucalyptol, 496. 



Eucalyptus, bark for tannin, 627 ; for oil, 495, 496 ; citri- 

 odora, 627; corymbosa, 269, 627; Globulus, 627; leu- 

 coxylon, 627; longifolia, 627; macrorhyncha, 270; 

 obliqua, 627 ; occidentalis, 627 ; rostrata, 627. 



EuchlEEna, botanical characters, 366. 



Euchlaena luxurians, 638. 



Euchlaena Mexicana, 367, 638. (See Teosinte.) 



Eucommia ulmoides, 77. 



Eupsalis minuta, 344. 



Europe, crop rotation systems in, 107, 



Eutrema hederisfolia, 77. 



Eutrema Wasabi, 77. 



Ev.aporating, as a home industry, 174-177; in Califor- 

 nia, 165. 



Evaporation from leaves controlled, 13. 



Evelyn quoted, 520. 



Evening primrose (Fig. 149), 113. 



Evergreen oak for tannin, 625. 



Evergreens, oils from, 494. 



Everlasting flowering pea, 391. 



Everlasting grass, 453. 



Evernia, 267. 



Exocarpus cupressiformis, 629. 



Exogens defined, 8. 



Expressed products, 177-190; notes, 156. 



Extracted products, 177-190; notes, 156. 



Faba vulgaris, 212-214; effect of electricity on, 32, 

 Fagopyrum emarginatum, 217. 

 Fagopyrum esculentum, 217-221. 

 Fagopyrum Tataricum, 217. 



Fagus Americana (Fig. 437), 317. 



Fagus ferruginea (Fig. 437«), 317, 



Fairchild, David, article by, 70. 



Fairchild, Thomas, quoted, 57. 



Fairy clubs, 477. 



Fairy cup, 268. 



Fallow, place in rotation, 100, 101, 104-109; notes, 

 668. 



Fallowing, summer-, 83; to eradicate weeds, 111; for 

 wheat, 668. 



False red-top, 374. 



Families, plant, explained, 2; number, 3. 



Farm garden, 273-281. 



Farm management, 90-98. 



Farm and Trades School, The, quoted, 653, 



Farmer's Register quoted, 105. 



Fats in leaves, 13. 



Feather blue-stem, 453. 



Feed, legal weight, 148. 



Feeding system, relation of forage-cropping to, 304. 



Felling trees, 335. 



Feltia gladiaria, 652. 



Feltia jaculifera, 652. 



Feltia subgothica, 653. 



Fencing as related to farm management, 90. 



Fennel, 457, 458, 460; importations, 496; for oil, 495. 



Fenugreek, 457; for forage, 307; introduction, 72; 

 small, 80. 



Fermentation, as effected by electricity, 33 ; in relation 

 to canning, 170; to preserving, 161. 



Ferments, in relation to plant nutrition, 19; to pre- 

 served products, 161. 



Fern, Boston, as house plant, 129 ; climbing, for window- 

 box, 130; effect of acetylene light on, 25; notes, 2, 19, 

 130; shade plant, 20; shading, 122. 



Fernambourgwood, 267. 



Fernambuck wood, 267. 



Fernow, B. E., article by, 313. 



Fertility, soil, relation of crop rotation to, 86. 



Fertilizer, commercial, handling on farm, 96, 97; as 

 herbicide, 115; in relation to crop rotation, 86; in 

 relation to plant diseases, 50; rotation of, 88. 



Fertilization, explained, 17. 



Fescue, 374; fine-leaved, 374; hard, 374, 436, 438; 

 meadow, seed notes, 133; sheep's, notes, 133. (See 

 Sheep's fescue.) 



Festuca, botanical characters, 366. 



Festuca duriuscula, 374 ; elatior, 374, (See Tall fescue) ; 

 elatior pratensis, 374; heterophylla, 374; ovina, 374, 

 (See Sheep's fescue) ; pabularis, 77 ; rubra, 374, (See 

 Red f escuej ; tenuifolia, 374. 



Fiber plants, 281-293 ; in their plant relations, 4. 



Fibers, notes, 9. 



Ficus elastica, 554, 558; for the house, 129. 



Field crop, distinction from forest crops, 317, 321, 322; 

 growing and transplanting plants, 147, 148. 



Field-pea, 510-513; planting dates, 138-140; seed per 

 acre, 136; for silage, 414; yields, 153-155. (See Pea.) 



Fields, layout of, 90. 



Figs, Ijeggarweed as cover-crop tor, 215; introduction 

 of Kabili varieties, 74; notes, 7; for preserves, 160; 

 varieties for planting, 276. 



Filao bark, 629. 



Filaree, 197, 198. 



Florin grass, 371. 



Fique fiber, 289. 



Fir", balsam, for oil, 495 ; in Canada, 319 ; diseases, 345 ; 

 for farm woodlot, 316; longevity, 346; lowland, for 

 tannin, 625; nitrogen requirements, 320; in its plant 

 relations, 2 ; silver, for tannin, 625. 



Fire-blight of apple, infectious disease, 47. 



Fire-lines in forests, 330, 331. 



Fireweed, 465. 



Firewood, securing, 339. 



Fischer quoted, 188. 



Fisetholz, 268. 



Fish-oil soap for sucking insects, 44. 



Fisitin dye, 268. 



Fitchner quoted, 31, 34. 



Fixter, John, article by, 212. 



Flammarion quoted, 27. 



Flat pea, 307.- 



Flat-stem grass, 373. 



