BULLETIN 
, aye an meaning of the term, 28, 
37, 38. 
Carbonic acid in wood-ashes, method of 
estimating it, 198; proportion found, 
194, 207 et seq. 
Carex stricta, analyses of hay from, 344; 
analysis of seeds of, 348. 
Catalogue, of fungi found near Boston, 
430; of ligneous plants in the Arnold 
Arboretum, 295, 456 ; of the peronospo- 
rex of the United States, 426. 
Cats, humane destruction of, 47, 48. 
Cattle (compare Stock), humane destruc- 
tion of, 45. 
Cellulose, meaning of the term, 30; of 
the fungus called tuckahoe, 370; the 
methods of estimating are known to be 
faulty, 37. 
Charcoal, loss of ash-ingredients from the 
wood in the preparation of, 248. 
Cherry-tree, culture of, has been aban- 
doned in some places on account of the 
black knot, 440; description of the dis- 
ease called black knot, 440, 444, 446; 
question whether the better kinds of 
cultivated are subject to the black knot, 
451; some kinds appear to be free from 
the knot, 450. 
Chestnuts, composition of, 376. 
Chicory, nourishes spores of the lettuce 
mould, 328. 
China, the soil of, is often not specially 
productive, 157. 
Chloride of Potassium, see Muriate of 
Potash. 
Choke-cherry-tree, is subject to the dis- 
ease called black knot, 440; should be 
destroyed as a pest, 452. 
Chloroform, as a means of destroying ani- 
mals, 44, 47. 
Chlorophy! grains, 320. 
Circumstances inimical to field experi- 
ments, 85, 86, 87, 103, 115, 125, 126, 
128, 133, 139, 141, 142, 161, 162, 305. 
Cladosporium, the genus of fungi, so 
called, 407; includes secondary forms 
of different Spheriacez, 442 ; C. fumago 
same as Fumago salicina, 410. 
Cleveland, D., sends specimens of Cali- 
fornian orange fungus, 404, note. 
Climate, influence of, upon the utilization 
of the soil-nitrogen by crops, 272-274. 
Clover, the question whether it has any in- 
fluence upon the potato rot, 331, 332, 335. 
Coal-ashes, agricultural value of, 50; are 
no better than sand, 56; chemical ex- 
amination of, 70; experiments in grow- 
ing plants in 52; contain phosphoric 
acid and potash, 66, 70; use of, in the 
earth closet, 67, for mixing with guano 
and other corrosive manures, 67. 
Compost, made with ashes or potashes, 
387; with dung, fish, lime, offal, etc., 
888 ; made with wood-ashes is a ‘‘com- 
plete’’ manure, 388; theory of the 
action of the lime and salt mixture, in 
making, 392. 
Composting, better than fire as a means 
of reducing vegetable matter, 202. 
OF THE BUSSEY INSTITUTION. 
461 
Conditions necessary for the growth ot a 
maximum crop, 129. 
Conidia, meaning of the term, 324, note. 
Connecticut, onion-fungus in, 428. 
Copperas, often contains ammonia, 402. 
Corn, see Maize. 
Corn meal and apples, an inadvisable 
ration, 369. 
Cost, of fertilizers, 18, 170, 186, 306, 309, 
379; of importing superphosphate, 173. 
Cotton-seed husk, analysis of ashes from, 
387. 
Cotton-seed meal, see Oil-cake. 
Cow dung, composition of, 316; field ex- 
periments with, 140, 315. | 
Cows fed with apples, 362, 369. 
Crenic acid, a nitrogenous body, 280. 
Crops, how to obtain the “normal” or 
maximum crop, 129. 
Cruciferous plants, the white mould of, 
329. 
Crude-ashes, meaning of the term, 30. 
Cucurbitaria, some species of the genus 
resemble Sphzria morbosa, 448. 
Curculio, attacks the black knot on plum- 
trees, 445, 447; but not that on choke- 
cherry-trees, 445. 
Curtis, his enumeration of fungi found on 
North Carolinian grape-vines, 415. 
Cyanide of potassium, is contained in 
certain fertilizers, 382; residues from, 
are used as manure, 381. 
Cystopus Bliti, description of, 429. 
Cystopus candidus, or white mould of 
cruciferous plants, 329, 429. 
Cystopus cubicus, description of, 429. 
Damsons, reason of their high price in 
New England, 440. 
Dana, Dr. 8. L., commends composts made 
of peat and alkali, 281. 
Date-stones, composition of, 373; fodder- 
value of, 375; used as fodder in Arabia, 
373. ~ 
Death, not immediate when an animal is 
beheaded, 41. 
De Bary, Prof., his work on Peronospore, 
331, 336. 
Destruction of animals, paper upon, by 
Prof. Slade, 40; various methods em- 
ployed for the, 43. 
Dextrin, amount of, contained in bran, 30. 
Diagrams of plots for field experiments, 
82, 118. 
Diatoms, abound in peat, 135; inhabit 
moist soils, 278. 
Diatrype viticola, a fungus found on 
American grape-vines, 415. 
Diffusion of liquids, significance of, in 
compost-making, 392. 
Digestive organs of cattle, anatomy of the, 
287. 
Diplodia, the genus, so called, is a second- 
ary form of some Ascomycetous fungus, 
415. 
Disease, of clierry-trees, called black knot, 
440 ; of grape-vine, caused by the fun- 
gus Peronospora viticola, 416; of olive 
