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INDEX 



Review questions, 47, 59, 71, 88, 

 105, 122, 139, 150, 159, 168, 181, 

 193, 206, 223, 253, 284, 301, 312 



Rhizomes, 75 



Rhubarb, 21, 22 



Riding cultivator, 71 



Ringing, 80 



Root cutting, 84 

 graft, 98 



Rose, winter care of, 163, 164 



Runner, 77 



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Saddle graft, 98 



San Jose scale on apple, 239-241 



on peach, 274 

 Sash, 53 

 Scab on apple, 235 



on pear, 248 



on plum, 281 

 Scale insects on apple, 239 

 on citrus fruits, 299 

 on peach, 274 

 Seed bed, soil for, 41 



germinative energy of, 38 



its needs, 32 



longevity of, 37 



maturity of, 36 



pot, 33 



soundness of, 37 



sowing of, 44 



tester, kinds of, 39 

 dinner plate, 40 

 Geneva, 40 



testing, 38 



treatment, 138 

 Seedlings, transplantings of, 46 



watering of, 44 

 Self-boiled lime sulphur, 135 

 Semi-hard wood cuttings, 87 

 Serpentine layering, 81 

 Sexual reproduction, 73 

 Shield bud, 90, 91 

 Short season crops, 20 

 Shot hole disease on cherry, 261 

 Shrubs, grouping and massing of, 



307 

 Single hedge row system, 172 

 Size of garden, 19 

 Slug on cherry, 262 

 Soap formula, 134 

 Soft wood cutting, 84 



Soft wood cutting, methods or 



handling, 87 

 Soil, compacting of, 43 

 mulching of, 165 

 sanitation of, 116 

 thermometer for, 58 

 water-holding capacity of, influ- 

 enced bv cultivation, 64 

 Sooty blotch, 236 

 Spinach, 22 



in Delaware basket, 155 

 Splice graft, 96 

 Spray gun, 130 



machine parts, 127-130 

 machinery, 123 

 materials, 130-139 

 nozzles, 129 

 rod, 130 

 Sprayers, automatic, 124 

 barrel, 125 

 kinds of, 123 

 power, 127 

 turn cylinder, 126 

 Spraying outline for apple, 243 

 for brambles, 206 

 for cherry, 262 

 for currants and gooseberries, 



193 

 for grape, 222 

 for peach, 274 

 for pear, 251 

 for plum, 283 

 for quince, 252 

 for strawberries, 181 

 Spring plowing, 66 

 tooth harrow, 68 

 Squash, 21, 22 



bug, 107 

 Stalk, 96 

 Stem cutting, 84 



end rot of citrus fruits, 297 

 Stolen, 77 

 Stone fruits, 254 

 Storing hard wood cuttings, 86 

 Strawberry, 21, 22 

 bed, renewal of, 169 



soil for, 170 

 cultivation of, 173 

 diseases, leaf spot, 179 



mildew, 180 

 harvesting of, 175 

 insects, leaf roller, 180 



weevil, 181 

 mulching of, 174, 175 



