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Index 



Fertilization, Soil and, hints on, 

 104-116; for small gardens, 

 amounts to apply, lime for 

 heavy soils, guano, analysis 

 of soils, 104; vegetation 

 plowed under to form humus, 

 manure, table of amounts of 

 fertilizers to apply, 105, 106; 

 soil for hotbeds, use of wood 

 ashes, 106; experimenting to 

 determine fertilizer needed, 

 advantages of dried blood, 

 107 jammonia, compost, trash 

 removed from fertilizers,! 08; 

 commercial fertilizers, sheep 

 and barnyard manure, 

 ground phosphate, nitrogen, 

 phosphoric acid and potash, 

 109; use of lime, apply man- 

 ure in fall, advantages of 

 barnyard manure, amount 

 of compost to apply, nitrate 

 of soda, no; for cabbage, 

 pepper, and eggplants, lime, 

 sulphate of ammonia, dried 

 blood, potash, wood ashes, 

 advantage of nitrogen to 

 promote growth, and phos- 

 phates to promote fruitful- 

 ness, in; crushed bone and 

 basic slag, combining fertil- 

 izers, tested lime, phosphates, 

 lime and ashes for sandy soil, 

 112; caution, guano as liquid 

 fertilizer, caution with ni- 

 trate of soda, vegetation 

 turned under to make humus, 

 113; manure treated with 

 rock phosphate, greasy wa- 

 ter, chicken droppings, sheep 

 manure, applying fertilizers, 

 114; liquid fertilizer, wood 

 ashes, manure for winter 

 covering, and in flats, 

 H5 



Figs, where to plant, correcting 

 spreading of roots, picking 

 fruit, pruning, mealy bug 

 and canker, their prevention, 

 mice, 193, 194, 195 



Flats, manure in, to hold soil 



to plant roots, 115; in recep- 

 tacle to water, 126 



Fleas, breed in rotting straw, 

 171; killed with stick fly 

 paper, 172 



Flies, breed in rotting straw, 

 171; to kill the small black, 

 damage to fruit, common 

 fly controlled by treating 

 manure, 173, 174; green fly 

 of plum tree, spray for, 203 



Florence fennel, 46 



Flowers, planted among vege- 

 tables, 244 



Fly beetles, spraying tomatoes 

 for, 92; to kill, 165 



Forcing vegetables, disadvan- 

 tages, 157 



Formaldehyde, for onions, 64; 

 treating potatoes with to 

 prevent scab, 72; a recipe for 

 formaldehyde solution, 

 182 



Formalin, see Formaldehyde. 



Frames, a list of vegetables to 

 be grown in, for early crops, 

 254. See Cold-frames and 

 Hotbeds. 



Frost, a list of vegetables not 

 injured by, 255; a list of 

 vegetables which will readily 

 be injured by frost, 255; 

 eradicates insects, 180 



Fruit, hints on, 184-208 



Fruits, Small, general hints on, 

 227-229 



Fruit, trees not to be set too 

 close together, 205; drying 

 to preserve, cultivation and 

 ventilation, whitewashing 

 trunks, 206; planting vege- 

 tables between trees, when to 

 look for borers, grafting, 

 remedies for diseases, cau- 

 tion, fertilizers, 207; train- 

 ing limbs, cultivating the 

 orchard, pruning, 205. See 

 under Apple, Peach, Pear, 

 etc. 



Fruit picker, advantages of, 

 249, 250 



