INDEX 



Page 

 A 

 Age of melon seeds affecting vital- 

 ity 19 



Air-slacked lime for striped beetle 70 



Altemaria sp. on muskmelons .... 85 



Anthracnose of melons 89 



Aphis Gossypii or melon lo';se. ... 72 



Aphis in the forcing housf 66 



Arthur, J. C, quotations rom. ... 25 



B 



Bacillus melonis 81 



Bacillus tracheiphilus 79 



Bacterial soft rot of muskmelons . . 81 



Bacterial wiit 79 



Bees: their influence on the crop. . 6 



Blinn, P. K., quotations from. ... 24 



Bordeaux mixture 82, 85 



Botanical vaiieties: 



Cantaloup)en.sis 4 



Reticulatus 5 



Flexuosus 5 



Chito 5 



Inodorous 5 



Botany of the melon 2 



Cantaloupes 4 



Characters of the flowers 2 



Citrullus \Tjlgaris 6 



Cladosporium cucumerinixm 89 



Clean farming a prevention against 



insects 78 



Climax baskets for mxiskmelons. . . 53 



Clover as a fertilizer 30 



Colletotrichum lagenaritun 89 



Conunercial fertilizers 33 



Conditions affecting growth: 



Climatic 9 



Soil 9 



Temperature of the soil 9 



Cotton.seed meal as a fertilizer for 



melons 33 



Cucurbitaceae family 2 



Cultivation of the plants 45 



Cultural methods 41 



Page 



Diseases of melons 79 



Dome screens for insects 70 



Downy mildew on melons 89 



Drainage: its effect on the soil .. . 10 



E 



Early planting as a protection 



against insects 71 



Early vs. late ripening for seed .... 26 



Effect of latitude and altitude on 



early maturity 28 



Extent of the melon business 59 



F 



Fertilization of the blossoms 6 



Fertilizers for melons: 



Kind and quantity 30 



A balanced ration 31 



Time for applying 34 



Forcing melons 61 



Function of root hairs 12 



Fusarium wilt 85 



G 



Germination of seeds, per cent of 20 



Goff, Prof. E. S., quotations from 



11, 18. 25 



Gophers and field mice injurious 



to melon crops 78 



Grading melons an important fac- 

 tor in maintaining one's repu 



tation 55 



Grasshoppers injurious to water- 

 melons 78 



H 



Habitat of the muskmelon and 



watermelon 1 



Har%'esting and marketing melons 46 



Historj- of the melon 1 



Hotbeds, construction of 37 



Hothouse: its advantages over the 



hotbed 40 



How to test the seed 20 



Humidity affecting seed vitality . . 19 



Depth of planting in the North and 



South 35 



Dlabrotica 12-punctata 72 



Diabrotica vittata 68 



Disease-resistant strains 87 



I 



its 



effect up>on 



Immature seed: 

 earliness .... 



Importance of careful selection of 

 seed melons: how it is usually 

 done 



103 



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