GENERAL INDEX. 
Agar agar in artificial cultures, 46,102,104. 
Alfalfa, diseases of, 81. 
Alum: 
Cost of, 26. 
For downy mildew of the grape, 25. 
Ammonia, 19. 
Cost of, 26. 
Effect on London purple and Paris green, 21. 
Ammoniacal copper carbonate, 23,86, 90,138. 
Chemical reaction in, 24. 
Comparative value of, 12, 89, 94,141,186. 
Cost of, 24, 93, 141. 
For apple scab, 19, 20, 81, 86. 
For bitter rot of the apple, 81. 
For black rot of grapes, 12,186. 
For brown rot and downv mildew, 13. 
For cranberry scald, 18. 
For pear leaf-blight, 139,140. 
For pear scab, 135. 
For potato blight, 191. 
For powdery mildew of the apple, 15. 
For ripe rot of grapes and apples, 172. 
For tomato rot, 83. 
Formula for, 23. 
Not to be mixed with insecticides, 20. 
Profits from use of, 94. 
With Bordeaux mixture, 12, 92, 93. 
With Paris green, 188. 
Ammonium hydrate for wheat smut, 117. 
Announcement, 45. 
Anthracnose: 
Difficulty of controlling with fungicides, 105. 
Of beans, 48. 
Of beans and melons, 105. 
Of cotton, 100,173. 
Of currants, 42. 
Of grape, 11,13, 85, 99,105,190. 
Of hollyhock, 45,115,135. 
Of maple, 82. 
Of oak, 82. 
Of peppers, 186. 
Apoplexio, 97. 
Apple, bitter rot of, 81, 166. 
Apple blight, 109. 
Apple powdery mildew, treatment of, 11. 
Apple rust, 85, 131. 
Apple scab, 81,128,132,187.188. 
Treatment of, 19, 81,85, 8G, 87. 
Apples ripe rot of, 104 (see Bitter rot). 
Apricot, shot-hole fungus, 188. 
Arsenic for wheat smut, 117,118. 
Artificial cultures of— 
Cotton anthracnose, 102,175,176. 
Geranium disease, 115. 
Hollyhock anthracnose, 47. 
Olive tuberculosis, 149. 
Peach yellows, 81. 
Smut, 3, 60, 158. 
Azurin for potato blight, 78, 79. 
Bacteria: 
Cause of geranium disease, 114. 
Cause of oat disease, 73, 130. 
Cause of olive tuberculosis, 148, 150. 
Cultures of, 73. 
In carnation disease, 128, 
In corn, 185. 
In potato scab, 128. 
In raising bread, 131. 
Bacteriological work at the zoological station at 
Naples, 149. 
Barley, modification of Jensen method for, 132. 
Seedlings, why not infected by smut, 164. 
Smut, 69, 133, 154, 155. 
Bean: 
Anthracnose, 48. 
Rust, 189. 
Rust and other fungous diseases, 135. 
Bean’s sulphur preparations, 81, 86. 
Beet: 
Leaf blight of, 190. 
Rust of, 190. 
Beetles: 
Eating smut, 133. 
Not cause of peach rosette, 146. 
Bellows for applying sulphur, 13. 
Bermuda, lily disease in, 43. 
Berry, J. O., experiments in vineyard of, 89. 
Bitter rot of: 
Apples, 81,166. 
Grapes, 166,171. 
Blackberry rust, 106. 
Black knot, 80. 
On plum, 134. 
Why not legislate against, 81. 
Black rot of grapes, 87,109,130, 185. 
Ammoniacal copper carbouate for, 12,186. 
Bordeaux mixture for, 81,129,186. 
Botanical description of, 81. 
Comparative test of fungicides for, 186. 
In northern Ohio, 86. 
In western New York, 99. 
New remedies for, 25. 
On wild species, 83. 
Recent observations on, 130,185. 
Treatment of, 11, 89. 
Black rust of cotton, 173,174. 
Black spot of the rose, 43. 
Blight: 
Of apples, 109. 
Of grape, 95,109. 
Of oak, 82. 
Of plums, 108. 
Of sycamore, 84. 
Blue vitriol: (see Copper sulphate.) 
Effects on vitality" of grain, 9, 10. 
For smut, 80. 
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