INDEX 



345 



Fence, garden, 61 



Ferns, as house plants, 334 



Fertilizers, applying of, 54; com- 

 plete, 50; detailed, 189; garden, 50; 

 home mixing, 53; how to buy, 52; 

 in planting vegetables in garden, 

 70; storing of, 53 



Field peas, as cover crop, 190 



Firming seed, 176 



Flats, tagging of, 40; use of and mak- 

 ing, 39 



Flea beetle, 136 



Flower beds, watering, 151; garden, 

 available material for, 46; garden, 

 planning the, 45 



Flowers, arrangement of, 46; cutting, 

 158; for special purposes, 47; keep- 

 ing fresh, 158 



Forcing frames, 85 



Frames, construction of, 258; cost 

 of material for, 259; making, n; 

 soils for, 256, 261; uses of, n; vege- 

 tables for growing in frames, 259, 

 260 



Frosts, first, 223 



Fruit, espalier and trained, 297; gar- 

 den, available material for, 56; gar- 

 den, layout of, 56; garden, planning 

 f> 56, 57; harvesting and storing, 

 271, 272; importance of, 55; trees, 

 buying of, 60; trees, drainage for, 67; 

 trees, location, 58; trees, protec- 

 tion, 312; winter protection, 297 



Fruits, cane, satisfactory varieties, 58, 

 59; soil for, 57; dwarf, distance 

 apart, 57; small, care of, 121; small, 

 hardiness, 55; small, order, 59; 

 small, propagating, 100; small, rea- 

 sons for, 55; soil for, 57; tree, satis- 

 factory varieties of, 60; tree, soil 

 for, 57 



Fungicides, no 



Garden, cleaning up in the fall, 296; 

 preparing, 297 



Geraniums, 124; good varieties of, 

 124 



Gift plants, their care, 329-334 



Glass, laying of, in greenhouse con- 

 struction, 219 



Gooseberries, distance apart, 57; 

 handling, 122; soil for, 57; varieties 



of, 59 



Grades, construction of, 96; steep, 

 sodding of, 98 



Grafting, 299 



Grapes, distances apart, 57; handling 

 of, 122; varieties of, 59 



Grapevine for porches, 163 



Green fly, 154 



Greenhouses, 212; different types of, 

 212; gardening, ventilation and 

 watering, 281; heating of, 220; in- 

 sects and diseases in, 281; making 

 of small, 217; what can be grown 

 in, 276; yields of vegetables that 

 can be expected, 276 



Grounds, home, improving of, 93 



Guano, Peruvian, 64 



Hardening off, 68, 103, 104 



Hardy perennials, from seed, 166, 167, 

 1 68, 169; growing of, 165; plants, 

 cost of, 165 



Harvesting, vegetables and fruit, 

 270 



Heating greenhouse, 220 



Hellebore, 139 



Hill system for strawberries, 181 



Hills, for vine crops, 115 



Hoes, different types, 8; onion, dif- 

 ferent types, 9; scuffle attachment, 

 18; single, wheel, 13; warren, 19; 

 wheel, attachments for cultivation, 

 18; wheel, different types, advan- 

 tages of each, 9, 14, 15; wheel, 

 double, cost of, 13, advantages of, 

 points in buying, 13, 14; wheel, 

 extra attachments, 16, 17; wheel, 



