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INDEX 



Lawn, 311 



Layer, 78 

 Layering, aerial, 81 



mound, 79 



serpentine, 81 



time for, 82 



tip, 80 



trench, 80, 81 

 Laying out the garden, 17 

 Leaf hopper on grape, 221 



roller on bush fruits, 190 

 on strawberry, 180 



spot on brambles, 204 

 on strawberry, 179 

 Lemon, 286 

 Lettuce, 21, 22 

 Lime, 286 



commercial, 136 



self boiled, 135 



sulphur, 132 



for summer spray, 136 



table for dilution for dormant 

 spray, 133 

 Little peach, 270 

 Locating the house, 303 

 Location of garden, 18 

 Loganberry, 195, 198 

 Long season crops, 20 

 Longevity of seed, 37 



M 



Manure, composting of, 56 

 Marketing, 151 

 Matted row system, 173 

 Maturity of seed, 36 

 Melon, 21, 22 

 Metamorphoses, complete, 107 



incomplete, 108 

 Mildew on bush fruits, 191 



on grape, 219 



on strawberry, 180 

 Mould on citrus fruit, 297 

 Mound layering, 78, 79 

 Mulched plants, spring treatment 



of, 166 

 Mulching of apple, 230 



the soil, 165 



of strawberry, 174, 175 

 Mustard, 22 



N 



Nicotine products, 134 

 Nitrification, 68 

 Notching, 80 

 Nozzles, 129 



Number of plants for small garden, 

 22 



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Onion, 21, 22 



in sacks, 155 

 Orange, 285 

 Oxygen necessary for germination, 



34 



Packages, kinds of, 153 



quality of, 157 

 Packing of apples, 232 



of grapes, 216 



for market, 157 



of strawberry, 177 

 Paris green, formula of, 132 

 Parsley, 21, 22 

 Peach, 262 



cultivation and pruning of, 266, 

 267 



diseases of, 269 



harvesting of, 268 



insects of, 272 



leaf curl, 271, 272 



planting of, 264 



propagation of, 263 



soil, site for, 264 



tree borer, 272 



varieties, 269 



yellows, 269 

 Pear blight, 246, 248 



cultivation of, 244 



diseases of, 246 



harvesting of, 245 



insects of, 248 



marketing of, 245 



planting of, 244 



propagation of, 243 



pruning of, 245 



psylla, 248 



soil for, 244 



thrips, 249 



varieties, 246 

 Peas, 21, 22 



