LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 



FRONTISPIECE. Every Home Should Have a Garden! Facing page 



PLATE i. A Warm Frame in a Cool Greenhouse for Starting Early 



Seeds. Sowing Seeds in a Flat 40 



PLATE 2. Sowing Seeds of Different Sizes and the Depth to Cover 

 Them. Seedling Plants Ready for Transplanting. Sub-watering 

 of Seedling Plants after Transplanting 41 



PLATE 3. An Attractive Arrangement of Quick Growing, Inexpensive 



Plants 66 



PLATE 4. Plants Ready for Repotting. The Proper Method of Re- 

 moving a Plant from a Pot for Examining the Roots or Re- 

 potting 67 



PLATE 5. Double Plow Attachment for Wheel Hoe. Setting out Let- 

 tuce Plants 70 



PLATE 6. Using a Board for Sowing Seed in a Small Garden. Firm- 

 ing the Seed after Sowing 71 



PLATE 7. Plant Forcers and Protectors 84 



PLATE 8. Firming the Soil about a Plant after Transplanting. Pro- 

 tection of Transplanted Plants from Sun to Prevent Wilting ... 85 



PLATE 9. A Modern Combination Seed Drill and Wheel Hoe. Melons 

 Started under Glass in Paper Pots for Setting out Later. Pot 

 Grown Tomato Plants. Cabbage and Lettuce Plants Trimmed 

 Ready for Transplanting 105 



PLATE 10. A Good Type of Compressed Air Sprayer. A Supply of 

 Insecticides and Fungicides such as Should be Kept on Hand 

 for the Home Garden 106 



PLATE u. The Proper Way to Thin out and Cut Back Gooseberry 



and Currant Bushes 122 



PLATE 12. White Fly on Under Side of Foliage of Fuschia. A Good 

 Type of Compressed Air Sprayer with Shoulder Strap for Use in 

 Small Gardens 123 



PLATE 13. Two Types of Modern Spray Irrigation, Suitable for Either 



Flower or Vegetable Garden 150 



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