INDEX 



345 



Endosperm, 63. 



effect of removing, 73. 



Fertilization, cross-, 113. 



defined, 113. 



self-, 113. 

 Feterita, 198. 

 Fiber crops, leading, 274. 

 Fibro-vascular bundles, 101. 

 Filament, 108. 

 Flax, methods of culture, 282. 



methods of handling, 283. 



range of, 282. 



value of products, 284. 

 Flowers of dicotyledons, 108. 



of legumes, 238. 



of monocotyledons, 109. 



pistillate, 110. 



staminate, 110. 



fertilized by insects, 111. 



fertilized by wind. 111. 

 Food, stored in leaves, 96. 



stored in roots, 87. 



stored in seed, 92. 



stored in stems, 137, 229. 



made from starch, 92. 



source of all, 92. 



travels how from leaves to roots, 

 103. 

 Formalin, use of, for oat smut, 128. 



use of, for potato scab, 130. 

 Frost, prevention of injury by, 305. 

 Fruit buds, age of wood bearing, 



295. 

 Fruit buds, conditions favoring 

 formation of, 293. 



how and when formed, 292. 

 Fruit, gathering and storing, 309. 

 Fruits, places of origin, 287. 

 Fruit trees, cultivation of, 291. 



distances between, 289. 



how developed when young, 288. 



training of, 292. 



how planted, 290. 



Garden, plan of, 316. 

 Germ defined, 46, 62. 

 Germination, conditions of, 64. 



optimum temperatures for, 67. 

 Girdling trees, effect of, 103. 

 Glacier defined, 1. 



Glumes, 109. 



Grading of seed corn, 179. 

 Grafting wax, 139. 

 Graft, cleft, 142. 



whip, 140. 

 Grape, age of bearing wood, 296. 



cultivation of, 291. 



method of planting, 291. 



method of pruning, 300. 

 Grasses, characteristics of, 224. 



leading cultivated, 227. 



habit of growth, 226. 



range of each, 236. 



Heat from germinating seeds, 71. 

 Hemp, how handled, 284. 



range of, 284. 

 Hessian fiy, 210. 

 Horticulture defined, 287. 

 Hotbed, 313. 

 Humus defined, 5. 



effect on air space in soil, 29. 



effect on soil structure, 37. 



effect on water-holding capacity, 

 15. 



how added to soil, 259. 



necessary to clovers, 255. 

 Hydrogen, 11. 

 Hypocotyl, 62. 



Inoculation, defined, 260. 



method of, 260. 

 Insects on vine crops, how com- 

 bated, 328. 



prevention of injury by, 307. 



Kafir corn, 198. 

 cultivation of, 200. 

 planting of, 200. 



Leaf likened to a mill, 90. 

 Leaves, functions and uses, 89. 



storage of food in, 96. 

 Legumes, as nitrogen gatherers, 240. 



benefits of, 239. 



characteristics of, 238. 



flowers of, 238. 



range of, 242. 



securing maximum benefits from, 

 272. 

 Lettuce, how grown, 318. 



