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INDEX 



asparagus rust, 208. 



Asparagus Sprengeri, 340. 



aspen, 326. 



as]Derula, 269. 



aspidistra, 340. 



asters, native, 264, 274, 275.- 



Astilbe Japonica, 269. 



Aubrietia deltoidea, 265. 



aucuba, 344. 



auricula, 354. 



azalea, culture of, 355. 



azalea species, 293, 305, 306. 



Baccharis halimifolia, 291, 293. 

 Bacterium tumefaciens, 180. 

 balm, 460. 

 bamboos, 230, 264. 

 Baptisia tinctoria, 264. 

 basil, 460. 



baskets, hanging, 348. 

 basswood, 329. 

 bay-tree, 306. 

 bean, 459, 463. 

 bedding, 228. 

 beech, 324. 

 beet, 456, 466. 

 begonias, 356. 

 belladonna lily, 287, 352. 

 Bellis perennis, 265. 

 Benzoin odoriferum, 293. 

 Berberis Aquifolium, 293. 

 Berberis Japonica, 306. 

 Berberis Thunbergii, 52, 221, 292, 293, 

 306. 



Berberis vulgaris, 51, 293. 

 Bermuda buttercup, 384. 

 Bermuda-grass, 80. 

 betula species, 293, 323, 324. 

 bignonia species, 314, 315. 

 billbergia, 344. 

 biota, 336. 

 birds, 16. 

 bitternut, 325. 

 bitter-sweet, 315. 

 bitter-sweet, false, 317. 

 blackberries, lajdng down, 138. 

 blackberrj^, culture of, 420. 

 blackberr}^, disease of, 212. 

 blackberry insects, 205. 

 black-rot, 209. 

 bladder nut, 302, 303. 



bleeding-heart, 267, 276. 

 blister-mite, 199. 

 blood as fertilizer, 112. 

 bloodroot, 265. 

 blue beech, 324. 

 blue-grass, 78. 

 Bocconia cordata, 263. 

 bog plants, 230. 

 bolting trees, 149. 

 boltonias, 275. 

 boneblack, 113. 

 bone, ground, 113, 

 bordeaux mixture, 196. 

 borders, maldng, 74, 222. 

 borers, 199, 417. 

 bougain\allea, 318. 



Boussingaultja baselloides, 313, 344. 



bouvardia, 344. 



box, 293, 306. 



box-elder, 323. 



boxthorn, 315. 



bridge-grafting, 148. 



Bridgeman, mentioned, 2. 



broccoli, 467. 



Bromus brizfeformis, 245. 



brooks, treatment of, 24, 58, 65, 232. 



broom, 306. 



brussels sprovits, 467. 



buckthorn, 221, 299. 



budding, 151. 



bud-moth, 200. 



buffalo berrj-, 302. 



Buist, mentioned, 2. 



bulbocodium, 289. 



bulbs, culture of, 281. 



bulbs in window-garden, 345. 



burdock, ornamental, 3. 



Burnette, F. H., quoted, 501. 



burning bush, 296. 



button-bush, 294. 



buttercups, tuberous, 289. 



butternut, 325. 



buttonwood, 326. 



Buxus semper\arens, 293. 



cabbage, culture, 457, 468. 

 cabbage, storing, 159, 470, 513, 515. 

 cabbage diseases, 208, 469. 

 cabbage insects, 200, 457, 469. 

 cabbage maggots, 187, 201, 469. 

 cactus, 358. 



