ILLUSTRATIONS 



The Coco-nut Palm Frontispiece 



FACING PAGE 



A Good Variety of Beardless Wheat 16 



Kiushiu Rice 16 



Honduras and Carolina Varieties of Rice 16 



A Field of Oats 17 



Fine Barley Growing in an Irrigated Mountain Valley 17 



This Boy Grew 239 Bushels of Corn on an Acre . 32 



A Field of Buckwheat in Bloom 33 



The Loaf that Hangs on the Bread-fruit Tree is as Large 



as a Man's Head 80 



Cultivating Sugar-cane by Machinery in the South . 81 

 Enlarging the Holes to Strengthen the Flow of Sap from 



the Maple Trees 96 



Garden Peas 97 



A Thrifty Peanut Field in North Carolina . . ' . 128 



A Single Peanut Plant and Its Nuts 128 



Asparagus in Bundles 129 



The Savoy Cabbage 144 



Cauliflower, the Most Delicate Vegetable in the Cab- 

 bage Family *45 



Kohlrabi, the Turnip-like Vegetable, Related to the 



Cabbage 145 



A Line of Samples from a Schoolboy's Home Garden 160 

 Corn, Parsley, Carrots, Wax and Lima Beans, Cucum- 

 bers, and Tomatoes 161 



A Fine Hill of Sweet Potatoes 176 



Garden Beets *77 



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