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INDEX 



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Packages 168 



Packing room 167 



Painting greenhouses 36 



Parsley 369 



in frames 405 



Pea 339 



Pepper 370 



in frames 405 



Phosphoric acid, sources 69 



Plant food, need 58 



Potassium sulphide 133 



Potash, sources 69 



Pots, use 141 



Profits in vegetable forcing 9 



Quality of greenhouse vegetables 7 



Radish, beds vs benches 247 



cultivation 257 



enemies 257 



fertilizing , 248 



frame culture 257 



importance 246 



in frames 405 



intercropping 255 



light 246 



marketing 257 



returns 258 



seed 249 



soil 248 



soil preparation 249 



sowing 254 



temperature 257 



thinning 255 



varieties 247 



ventilation 257 



watering 256 



yields 258 



Red spider 123 



Refrigeration 174 



Rhizoctonia 77 



Rhubarb, digging roots 199 



forcing in permanent beds . . 192 

 forcing transplanted roots . 194 



freezing roots 199 



growing roots 197 



harvesting 201 



importance 190 



in frames 406 



light for forcing 190 



marketing 201 



planting 200 



preparing beds 199 



principles in forcing 191 



quality 190 



returns 202 



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storing roots 199 



temperature 200 



varieties 196 



watering 200 



yields 202 



Sea kale 371 



Selection of crops 380 



Shading 164 



Shading greenhouses 36 



Shutters 393 



Single cropping 381 



Soils, adaptation 57 



advantages of sandy 49 



Ashtabuia 55 



Boston district 54 



chemical composition 52 



Chester fine sandy loam .... 54 



classification 48 



Cleveland 56 



color j 52 



depth 53 



drainage 53 



greenhouse abnormal 46 



Irondequoit 57 



Lansdale silt loam 53 



muck 53 



Norfolk series 57 



organic content 52 



selection 46 



structure 51 



texture 46 



Toledo 56 



water content 52 



Soil preparation 70 



changing 70 



composting 71 



drying 76 



green manuring 74 



harrowing 82 



manuring in the field 73 



manuring in the greenhouse 75 



plowing 82 



raking 83 



spading 83 



summer mulching 78 



Soil sterilization 85 



methods , . . . 86 



necessity 85 



Spinach 372 



in frames 406 



Spraying apparatus 115 



Starting plants 134 



care 148 



damping-off 148 



high quality 134 



seed of high quality 134 



seed sowing 145 



separate houses 137 



soil preparation 144 



soil selection 144 



