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INDEX 



Salix arenaria, 629. 



Salix Russelliana, 629. 



Salsify seed, percentage of purity and germination, 133. 



Salsola Tragus, 309. 



Salt, as an herbicide, 115, 117, 118; for insects, 43; legal 



weight, 151. 

 Salt sage, Nuttall's, 565. 

 Saltbrushes, 565. 

 Saltbushes, 565, 566; in Great Basin, 455; on Pacific 



coast, 455; in Southwest, 454. 

 Saltgrass, 453, 455. 

 Salvia officinalis, 270. 

 Samar, place in rotation, 108. 

 Sambucus Canadensis, 268, 

 Sambucus Ebulus, 268. 

 Sambucus nigra, 268. 

 Sambucus pubens, 268. 

 Samphire, 310. 

 Samuela carnerosana, 290. 

 Sanborn, J. W., article by, 566. 

 Sand, legal weight, 148. 

 Sand lucern, 193, 456; seed per acre, 136. 

 Sand spurry, 588. 

 Sand vetch, 658. 

 Sandalwood for dye, 270. 

 Sandelholz, 270. 

 Sanders wood, red, 270. 

 Santalum acuminatus, 629. 

 Sanitary prevention of plant diseases, 51, 52. 

 San Jos^ scale, 38, 41, 45. 

 Sansevieria fiber, 281, 286, 291. 

 Sansevieria Guineensis, 291. 

 Sansevieria longiflora, 291. 

 Sansevieria Roxburghiaua, 291. 

 Sandsten quoted, 29. 

 Santalin dye, 270. 

 Santalwood, 270. 

 Sanwa millet, 470. 

 Sap rise in plants, 15. 

 Sapan wood, 270. 

 Sappan wood, 270. 

 Saprophyte, defined, 1 ; nutrition, 19. 

 Sassafras, 457, 465; for oil, 495. 

 Sassafras officinale, 465. 

 Satyr's Beard, 478. . 

 Sauces, statistics, 177. 

 Sauer kraut, 173. 

 Saunders quoted, 67. 

 Saunders wood, 270. 

 Sauternes, 182. 

 Savory, 457. 



Sawdust for alcohol, 186. 

 Sawflies in sweet-potatoes, 622, 623. 

 Sawmills, 335, 336; portable, 341. 

 Saw palmetto for fiber, 293; for tannin, 626. 

 Saw-wort, 270. 



Saxifrage for window-box, 130. 

 Sayavee, 268. 

 Scale-insects, 44; on house plants, 130; treatment, 38- 



44, 45, 281. 

 Schinus Aroeira, 626, 

 Schinus Molle, 626. 



Schrader's brome-grass, 375. {See Rescue-grass.) 

 Schroeter quoted, 392. 

 Schubert quoted, 107. 

 Sohwankhard quoted, 30. 

 Scirpus (Fig. 39), 16. 

 Sclerenchyma, 8, 16. 

 Sclerotinia ciborioides, 232. 

 Scofield, C. S., article by, 362; quoted, 74. 

 Scoke berries, 269. 

 Scolytus quadrispinosus, 343. 

 Score-card for plant-breeding, 62, 63. 

 Scotch bean, 212-214. 

 Scotch broom, 310. 



Scotland crop rotation systems in, 106, 107. 

 Screens for shading plants, 122, 123. 

 Screw-bean, 453. 

 Screw-pine fiber, 281. 

 Soribner log rule, 338. 

 Scrub saltbush, 565. 

 Sea lavender, 629. 

 Seaside Grape, 628. 



Secale, botanical characters, 366. 



Secale cereale, 375, 559. (See Rye.) 



Secale montanum, 560. 



Sedges, 9; in Alaska, 455; in Great Basin, 455; on Pacific 



slope, 455; in Rocky.mountain region, 454. 

 Seed-bearing plants, 2, 4. 

 Seed-bed, notes, 133, 135. 

 Seedless varieties, 58. 

 Seeds, breeding, 146; crops, growing, 141-146; effect of 



electricity on, 30-35; germination, 18; grass, 439-441 ; 



machinery for, 141; methods of dissemination, 18; 



mixing, 440; mixtures, 440, 441; notes and tables, 



131-155; testing, 132, 141-144, 280; treatment for 



diseases, 48-50; type and handling as related to plant 



diseases, 48-50, 52. 

 Selaginella, shading, 122, 



Selection, 54, 60-63, 69; to avoid diseases, 52. 

 Self-heal, 112. 



Self-pollination defined, 423. 

 Semasia nitricana, 513. 

 Senebier quoted, 31. 

 Seneca snakeroot, 457, 465. 

 Senecio, treatment with copper sulfate, 118. 

 Senji, place in rotation, 109. 

 Sensitive pea, 309. 



Sensitive plant, cause or movement in, 19. 

 Sepals defined, 7; function, 17. 

 Sepia, 270. 

 Sepia officinalis, 270. 

 Sequoia gigantea, 625. 

 Sequoia sempervirens (Fig. 458), 323, 625. 

 Seragunge fiber, 283. 

 Serajganj fiber, 283. 

 Sereh of sugar-cane, 610. 

 Serradella, 566; as cover-crop, 259; relation to soii- 



inoculation, 393; seed per acre, 136. 

 Serratula tinctoria, 270. 

 Sesame, 501. 

 Sesamum Indicum, 501. 



Sesbania aculeata, place in rotation, 108, 109. 

 Sesbania macrocarpa, 286. 

 Setaria, 369. 



Seven-headed wheat, 664. 

 Shad scale, 310, 565. 

 Shade-enduring trees, 323. 

 Shading of plants, 119-123. 

 Shagbark hickory (Fig. 445), 319. 

 Shag mane, 476. 

 Shakers quoted, 463. 

 Shallu sorghums, 575, 576. 

 Shama millet, 470. 

 Shamel, A. D., article by, 639. 

 Sheath, conducting, in plant, 14. 

 Sheep, digestibility of soybean foragrf, 583; pasturing 



to eradicate weeds, 111; rape for, 532; rotation for, 



100; in Wyoming, 454. 

 Sheep's fescue, 374, 447; in Rocky mountain region, 



454; seed notes, 133, 136, 439, 442; on upper Pacific 



coast, 455. 

 Shellac, 229. 



Shelter-tents for plants, 123. 

 Shepard, Charles IJ., article by, 631. 

 Shepherd's knot, 629. 



Shepherd's-purse, eradicating, 118; seed notes, 141. 

 Sheppard quoted, 31. 

 Shepperd, J. H., quoted, 104. 

 Shepperson, A. B., quoted, 250, 253. 

 Sherries, 182, 183. 

 Shichito-i fiber, 292. 

 Shiitake, 474. 

 Shorts, legal weight, 151. 

 Shutt, Frank T., quoted, 213. 

 Siberian fescue, 455. 

 Sicilian sumac for tannin, 626. 

 Sida EUiottii, 307. 

 Side-oats grama, 454. 

 Siemens, C. W., quoted, 22. 

 Sieve-tubes, 9, 15. 

 Sigaud de la Fond quoted, 30. 

 Silage, 414-418, 566-569; cutters, 568, 569; defined, 



303; relation to forage-cropping, 305; sorglium, 581. 

 Silica in soil, 13. 

 Silk-cotton tree for fiber, 293. 



