198 
Sodium hyposulphite: 
Cost of, 26. 
For apple scab, 81. 
For strawberry leaf-blight, 85. 
For wheat smut, 117. 
With insecticides, 21. 
Sodium sulphate for wheat smut, 117. 
Sorghum smut, 80. 
Spinach, fungous diseases of, 131. 
Spraying: 
For grape mildew, 74. 
For hollyhock disease, 50. 
Spraying machines: 
Cost of, 26, 55. 
Eureka, 90. 
For apple scab, 20. 
Home made, 138. 
Japy, 90. 
Knapsack, 14, 26, 50, 51,91. 
Nixon, 91,138. 
Sprayings: 
Early, 139,141. 
Number of, 79, 89, 90,130,140. 
Time of, 20, 90, 91. 
Station botany, some had, 185. 
Stinking smut, 80. 
Of wheat, 117,132,133,186,187. 
Stone smut in wheat, 61,117. 
Strawberry: 
Leaf-blight of, 83, 87,134. 
Notes on culture, 85. 
Strawberry pests, 186. 
Sulphur: 
For lettuce mildew, 17. 
For mildew of rose, 17,135. 
For onion smut, 44. 
For powdery mildew of the grape, 13. 
Means of applying, 13. 
Suli)hurous oxide for wheat smut, 117. 
Sweet potato, fungous diseases of, 186. 
Sweet potato rots, 82,131,187. 
Sycamore blight, 81. 
Temperature, effects on smut infection, 154. 
Texas, some parasitic fungi of, 83. 
Timber : 
Some of its diseases, 40. 
Red rot of, 41. 
Timber—Continued. 
Wet rot of, 41. 
Toadstools, 188. 
Tomato diseases, treatment of, 83. 
Treatment: 
Of anthracnose of the vine, 190. 
Of apple scab, 19, 87. 
Of blackberry rust, 106. 
Of black rot of grapes, 11,12, 25, 81, 89,129,186. 
Of cranberry scald and gall fungus, 18. 
Of fungous diseases of plants, 85,133. 
Of gr ape diseases, 83. 
Of grape mildew, 73. 
Of grape and potato diseases, 83. 
Of hollyhock disease, 50. 
Of mildews on plants under glass, 16. 
Of olive tuberculosis, 153. 
Of onion smut, 44. 
Of pear leaf-blight, 138. 
Of pear scab and leaf-blight, 14,137. 
Of pear scab, 142. 
Of ripe rot of grapes and apples, 172. 
Of smut in wheat, 128. 
Tuberculosis of olive, 148. 
TJTedinial parasites, 44. 
Verdigris, 25. 
Vermorel nozzles, 14,15,91,138. 
Vienna, Va., experiments at, 89. 
Vine: 
Bacillus in cancer of, 150. 
Blight, 109. 
Diseases, 129. 
Dotted and speckled anthracnose of, 85. 
Mysterious disease, 189. 
New dangerous parasite of, 187. 
Root-rot of, 43. 
Wet rot of timber, 41. 
Wheat: 
Effects of blue vitriol on the vitality of, 10. 
Note on rust of, 80. 
Scab of heads, 191. 
Smut, 69, 117,128,132,185,186,188. 
Wheat smut, treatment for, 117,128,132,187,188. 
White smut, new, 82. 
Wounds, healing of, 41. 
Yeast, 5, 6,131. 
Yellows, identical with rosette, 143. 
Yellows of peach, 81, 84,110,184. 
