INDEX 



691 



Pinks for farm garden, 274; longevity, 10. 



Pinnela fiber plant, 291. 



Pinus divaricata (Fig. 462), 323; Halepensis, 624; muri- 

 cata, 624; palustris, 497, 508 : radiata, 624; resinosa 

 (Fig. 460), 323; Strobus (Fig. 459), 323, 508, (See 

 Pine, white) ; sylvestris (Fig. 461), 323. 



Piouri dye, 268. 



Piper, C. v., articles by, 564, 566, 587. 



Piper Betel, place in rotation, 109. 



Piper nigrum, 586. 



Piptadenia macrocarpa, 628, 



Pistache, 79. 



Pistachio-nut, 73, 74. 



Pistacia Lentiscus, 626. 



Pistacia orientalis, 626. 



Pistacia Terebinthus, 626. 



Pistacia vera, 79, 626. 



Pistacio, 79. 



Pistil, 7; structure, 17. 



Pisum arvense, place in rotation, 108. 



Pisum sativum, var. arvense, 510. 



Pita fiber. 281,291. 



Pita floja fiber, 289. 



Pith, 9. 



Pitti, 270. 



Piuri dye, 268. 



Plant, 1-35; environment, 19—21 ; growing under shade, 

 119-123; growth, 1 9 ; growth as affected by electricity, 

 30-35; growth, stimulation by weak poisons, 28, 29; 

 irritability, 19; longevity, 10; movement, 19; nutri- 

 tion and respiration, 18, 19; societies, 10; structure, 

 life processes and environment, 11—21. 



Plant-breeding, 53-69; relation to diseases, 52; relation 

 to plant introduction, 73. 



Plant-breeding societies, 55. 



Plant diseases, 46—53. 



Plant introduction, 70-80. 



Plant lice, 38, 40, 43-45; in cotton, 251, 252. 



Plant-louse, pliylloxera, resistance of grape roots to, 43. 



Plantain, 112, 200; notes, 6; place in rotation, 109; in 

 Southwest. 454. 



Planting notes, 131-148. 



Plants, growing and transplanting field-crop, 147, 148; 

 in residence windows, 128—130. 



Plasmodiophora brassica?, 223, 392, 550. 



Plastering hair, legal weight, 150. 



Pleurotus ostreatus, 477. 



Pliny quoted, 222, 540, 560, 564. 



Plum, 275, 276; for canning, 160; curculio, 43, 44; dis- 

 eases, 51; evaporating, 174; Java, 243; notes, 4; 

 pocket disease, 47 ; Paris green sprav, 44 ; for relishes, 

 173; seed notes, 328, 329; weight, legal, 148. 



Plume moth in sweet-potatoes, 622. 



Plur-annual plants, 10. 



Plusia brassicEe, 223. 



Poa, botanical characters, 365, 366 ; arachnif era, 373, 

 (See Texas blue-grass) ; compressa, (.See Canada blue- 

 grass) ; flava, 374 ; Mulalensis, 79 ; nemoralis, 373, (See 

 Wood meadow-grass) ; pratensis, 373, (See Kentucky 

 blue-grass) ; serotina. 374, 445; triflora, 373, 374, 445, 

 (See Fowl meadow-grass) ; trixnalis, 374, (See Rough- 

 stalked meadow-grass) ; gaban, 268. 



Pod corn, 402. 



Poi, 630. 



Poinciana, roval, 391. 



Poison henUock (Fig. 168), 117. 



Poison ivy (Fig. 169), 117. 



Poison oak (Fig. 170), 118. 



Poison svunac (Fig. 171), 118. 



Poisouous plants, 114. 



Poisons, stimulation of plant growth by means of weak, 

 28, 29. 



Poke berries, 269. 



Poketawes, 402. 



Poleburn of tobacco, 653. 



Polish wheat, 663, 665. 



Pollen, 17, 18; tube, 17. 



Pollination, 55-57; notes, 18. 



Polyanthus for farm garden, 274. 



Polygala, 79. 



Polygala butyracea, 79. 



Polygala Senega, 465. 



Polygonacese in its plant relations, 3. 



Polygonum, 217; amphibium, 628; aviculare (Fig. 141), 

 112; Bistorta, 62S; Hydropiper, 628; Persicaria, (Se« 

 Smartweed); Sachalinense, 310; Weyriehii, 79. 



Polypodium vulgare, photosynthetic processes in, 120. 



Polypody, photosynthetic processes in, 120. 



Polyporus borealis (Figs. 493, 494), 346; igniarius, 346? 

 Mylitta;, 480 ; Sapurema, 480 ; tuberaster, 480. 



Pomace, 180. 



Pome-fruits, 2, 6. 



Pomegranate, for tannin, 629; varieties for planting, 

 276. 



Popcorn, 402, 418—121; seed per acre, 136: weight, 

 legal, 148. 



Poplar, bark for tannin, 629; buds for dye, 270; diseases, 

 346; intolerant character, 323; marketing, 341; for 

 paper, 503-505, 507, 508; place in forest rotation 

 324; regeneration, 326; in Southwest, 453. 



Poppy, 274; for dye, 270; place in rotation, 109; seed 

 457; treatment with copper sulfate, 1 18. 



Populus deltoides, 507 (Fig. 449, p. 321.) 



Populus grandidentata, 508. 



Populus tremuloides, 508. 



Porter, 189. 



Porto Rico, coffee in, 245, 246; crop rotation system^ 

 105. 



Portugal berries, 269. 



Portulaca, for farm garden, 274. 



Portulaca oleracea (Fig. 140), 112. 



Portulacaria afra, 79. 



Port wine, 182. 



Posts, cutting, 339. 



Potash, 12; effect of electric light on content of plant, 

 23; effect of electricity on amount in soil, 31. 



Potassium, 20; bichromate, 28; nitrate, 31 ; sulfid, 39. 



Potato, 519-528; for alcohol, 186; aquatic, 79; bag, 

 legal size, 152; beetle, 38, 40, 43, 44; black scale, 523; 

 blight, 47, 48, 50, 523; for canning, 160; clons of, 57; 

 composition, 542; diseases, 51; dry-rot, 523; effect of 

 electricity on, 31, 32; effect of weak poisons on 

 growth, 29; in Europe, 526, 527; evaporating, 174; 

 in farm garden, 279, 280; growers' rotation, 102; in- 

 sect enemies, 42, 524; longevity, 10; modifications for 

 environmeuC, 19; nitrogen requirements, 320; notes, 

 2, 5, 6, 20, 51; place in the rotation, 99-109, 207, 220; 

 planting dates, 138-140; propagation notes, 131 ; 

 rosette, 523; rot, 49, 50, 52; scab, 47-50, 523; seed per 

 acre, 136; in South, 527, 528; spraying machinery, 

 46; storage houses for, 552, 553; treatment with cop- 

 per sulfate, 118; weights, legal, 151, 152; yields, 153- 

 155. 



Potato family, drug and condimental plants in, 457. 



Potentilla Tormentilla, 629. 



Poterium Sanguisorba, 306. 



Poulard wheat, 663, 664. 



Powder gun, 45, 651. 



Powell, G. Harold, article by, 355. 



Prairie dogs in alfalfa, 195; fires as an aid in insect con- 

 trol, 40. 



Prentiss, H. V., quoted, 206. 



Prepotency, test for, 63. 



Frescott, Samuel C, articles by, 168, 181, 188. 



Prescott's Conquest of Mexico quoted, 404, 405. 



Preserved products, 157—177; notes, 156. 



Preserves, 160, 162; statistics, 177. 



Preserving, 157-177; notes, 179. 



Press-cake, 609. 



Prickly comfrev, 309. 



Prickly lettuce"(Fig. 147), 113. 



Prickly pear, 73, 74; burner, 227; for dye, 270; as im 

 age, 226, 227; notes, 454. 



Prillieux quoted, 22. 



Primrose, 129; evening, 120, 141. 



Pringle quoted, 57. 



Privet berries for dye, 270. 



Propagation of plants, 19; of field-crop, 147. 



Proso millet, 469-473; notes, 136. 



Prosopis juUflora, 308. 



Protea grandiflora, 629. 



Protea mellifera, 629. 



Protection of farm woodlot, 330, 331. 



Proteids, in leaves, 13, 15; utilization, 18. 



Prothallium, 19. 



Protoplasm, 1 1 ; effect of electricity on plant, 34. 



