Index 



323 



Planting, 18; care after, 42; 

 depth of, 37 ; essentials to suc- 

 cess in, 36 ; time of, 21 ; fall, 

 in the North, 22; firm, 36; 

 machines, 40 ; methods of, 37 ; 

 in different regions, 22 ; tray, 

 36 ; under irrigation, 40. 



Plants, age for setting, 231 ; alley 

 for setting, 232 ; carrying over 

 the summer, 247 ; digging, pack- 

 ing, shipping, 229 ; distance 

 between bedded, 98 ; heeling- 

 in, 27 ; home-grown, 25, 227 

 number required to the acre, 26 

 ordering from a nursery, 25 

 "pedigree," 232; potted, 233 

 preparing for setting, 26 ; quality 

 in, 231 ; shipping, 26; spacing in 

 row, 29 ; specific examples of 

 spacing, 31 ; thinning in matted 

 rows, 245 ; trimming before 

 setting, 29. 



Plow for marking out, 33. 



Plowing, depth of, 19 ; time of, 18. 



Pollen, immediate influence of, 134. 



Pollination, 126 ; and the weather, 

 137 ; insects an aid to, 137 ; 

 of forced plants, 261. 



PoUinizer, desirable points in, 133 ; 

 distributing the, 135; selecting 

 the, 132. 



Potatoes between strawberries, 49. 



Potted plants, value of, 233 ; 

 setting, 41. 



Powers, Stephen, quoted, 219, 



Pre-cooling, methods, 191. 



Preserves and sirups, 208. 



Prices in different districts, 214; 

 lower, 224. 



Production, local centers of, 311. 



Propagating from fruiting bed, 228. 



Propagation, 226 ; by di\ision, 

 236 ; by runners, 226 ; by seeds, 

 235 ; feat in, 229. 



Pruning, summer, 105. 



Refrigerator cars, 189 ; construc- 

 tion of, 190 ; icing, 190. 

 Refrigerators, 150. 



Renewal, methods of, 242. 



Renewing, cost of, 246 ; hills and 

 hedge-rows, 246 ; matted rows, 

 244. 



Ridging, 20, 72. 



Root-louse, 275. 



Root Rot, 272. 



Root system, 67. 



Root worms, 277. 



Roots, methods of protecting, 36. 



Rose bug, 279. 



Rotations, in different regions, 45 ; 

 necessity for, 44. 



Rows, distance between, 30 ; lay- 

 ing off, 35 ; spacing plants in, 

 29. 



Runner cutters, 100, 103 ; propaga- 

 tion, 226. 



Runners, bedding, 95 ; from the 

 fruiting bed, 228 ; increase in 

 different varieties, 228 ; layer- 

 ing for forcing, 258 ; pinching 

 and cutting, 103 ; removing 

 surplus, 99. 



Rust, or leaf-blight, 270. 



Screens for frost protection, 282. 

 Season, influence of weather on, 



194 ; lengthening the, 154, 193 ; 



retarded by mulching, 110; of 



different districts, 197. 

 Sea-weed, for mulching, 115. 

 Seed propagation, 235. 

 Self-sterility of varieties, 134. 

 Sesia rutilans, 278. 

 Setter's tray, 36. 

 Setting, firm, 36 ; methods, 37 ; 



preparing plants for, 26 ; under 



irrigation, 40. 

 Shade after setting, 42. 

 Shavings for mulching, 115. 

 Sherman, W. A., quoted, 197. 

 Shipping seasons of different dis- 

 tricts, 197. 

 Sites, as determined by air drainage, 



6 ; as determined by exposure, 7 ; 



as determined by water drainage, 



7 ; early and late, 7 ; flat, 8 ; 



steep, 7. 



