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INDEX 



PAGE 

 Greenhouses (continued) 



soil 113 



substitutes for glass 114 



temperature Ill 



types 103 



ventilation Ill 



watering 112 



Green manures 35 



Ground bone 37 



Ground cherry 277 



Hamper 145 



Hardening-off of plants 75 



Hellebore 121 



Herbs 309 



Heredity in plants 84 



Home garden 12 



Home mixing of fertilizers. . . 40 



Horseradish 216 



Hotbeds (see also greenhouses) 99 



early spring use 95 



fire hotbeds 98 



greenhouse hotbeds 100 



manure for 96 



sash for 109 



shutters for 110 



mats for 110 



Humus 26 



Implements 13, 57 



combined drills and culti- 

 vators 58, 66 



dibbles 59 



hand implements 50, 58 



horse hoes and cultiva- 

 tors 55, 56, 57 



marker 59 



plank drag 61 



potato diggers 61 



scuffle hoe 60 



seed drills 58 



spray pumps 61 



Insecticides 120 



application of 124 



arsenate of lead 121 



carbon bisulphide 123 



hellebore 121 



kerosene emulsion 122 



Paris green 120 



pyrethrum 120 



PAGE 

 Insecticides (continued) 



"sticker" 122 



tobacco 120 



Insects 119 



aphis 137 



bean weevil 139 



cabbage flea beetle 136 



cabbage lice 137 



cabbage plusia 128 



cabbage worms 126 



catching at night 123 



celery caterpillar 138 



chinch bug 138 



corn moth 137 



classes of. 119 



cucumber beetle. 131 



cut-worms 130 



leaf lice 137 



maggots 134 



May beetle 133 



natural enemies 119 



parsley worm 138 



potato beetle . 125 



pea weevil 139 



squash bug 141 



squash vine borer 140 



tassel worm 137 



white grub 133 



wire worms. 129 



Irrigation 18 



acre inch of water 19 



amount of water needed... 18 



application of water 20 



cultivation as an aid to. . . 17 



pumping water for 19 



reservoirs 19 



Skinner system 22 



subirrigation 21 



temperature of water 21 



Jerusalem artichoke 302 



Judging vegetables 316 



Kainit 39 



Kale 212 



Kerosene emulsion 122 



Kitchen garden 12 



Kohl-rabi 212 



Laboratory exercises 327 



Land plaster 40 



