Index


Meadow grass, rough-stalked, 51
Means' grass, see Johnson grass
Mediterreanean grape, 75
Melons
 honey dew, 115
 Persian, 115
Mendelian theory, 117
Methods of breeding, 138
Methods of distribution, 124
Meyer, Frank N., 122, 124
Mitchell, George F., 85
Millet
 pearl, 6
 proso, 114
Minnesota Agricultural Experiment Sta-
 tion, 126
Mission grape, 75
Mitsumata paper plant, 134
Morrill Land Grant College Act, 54, 63
Morrow, James, 31
Morse, W. J., 135
Morton, Sterling J., 98, 100
Morus multicaulis (see footnote 3), 29.
 49
Mosaic disease, 136
Mulberry, 101
Mulgoba, East Indian (mango), 106, 131

Naggiar, V. F., 127
Native American crops (see footnote 2), 1
Navy, assistance of, in crop discovery, 27
Navy department endorsement of Trea-
 sury Department Circular; see Ap-
 pendix, Section III.
Nelson, David, 10
Newton, Isaac, 54, 55, 56, 68, 75, 76, 81
Niles Register (publication), 45
Nut grass, 7
Nut, Queensland, 106

Oak
 cork. 52, 95
 English, 95
Oats
 Black Prussian, 70
 Black Swedish, 70
 Black Tartarian, 70
 Board of Trade, 70
 Excelsior, 70
 Fellow, 70
 New Brunswick, 70
 Nuns, 70
 Potato, 70
 Rustproof, 70
 Scotch Dun, 70


 Somerset, 70
 Swedish, 119
 Swedish Select, 119
 White Schonen, 70
 White Swedish, 70
 Yellow Lithuanian, 70
Office of Dry-Land Agriculture, 121
Office of Forage Crops, 127
Office of Foreign Seed and Plant Intro-
 duction, 120
Office of Plant Industry, 111
Office of Seed and Plant Introduction,
 125, 126, 137
Oglethorpe, James, 10
Ohio Cultivator (publication), 51
Olives, 9, 25, 63, 91, 122, 131
Onderdonk, 132
Onion, 113
Opium, 52
Opium poppy, 76
Oranges
 Bahia navel, 77, 78
 Citrus trifoliata, 79
 family, 61
 Mandarin, 106
 osage, 101
 Riverside navel, 78
 St. Michael, 78
 Selecta, 79
 tangerine, 78
Orchard grass, 7
Osage orange, 101

Paederia foetida, 74
Palmer, Edward, 95
Paper plant, mitsumata, 134
Paraguay tea, mate, 33
Parry, C. C., 59
Pasture crops, 92, 94
Patent office, 3, 30, 31, 34, 35, 36, 48, 49,
 50, 51, 54
 Annual Report of 1835, 39
 Annual Report of 1837, 38
 Annual Reports, 40, 47-48
 establishment of agricultural division,
 38
 transferral to Department of Interior,
 40
 work of, 39
Pathology, Division of Vegetable Physi-
 ology and, 11
Peaches, 132
 introduction of, 9
 Mexican, 121
 wild, 121
Peanuts, 139