INDEX 



Annuals, 34-36, 49-54. 

 Apples, best, 228-231; do they 



keep doctor away? 232. 

 Artichoke, globe, 214. 

 Asparagus, growing, 80-89. 



Bailey, Professor, 207,, 247. 



Beans, baby, 19; Parisian, 136; 

 stringless, 136. 



Beecher, Henry Ward, 193. 



Beets, sweetest, 21; sugar, 21. 



Berries, best kinds to raise, 194; 

 Burbank's new, 212-214. 



Blackberries, 212. 



Brains, i, 4, chap, vi, 87. 



Brazilian forest roof gardens, 165. 



Bulbs, 38, 43 (hints on growing). 



Burbank, Luther, profitable car- 

 itations, iv; flower improve- 

 ments, v; seeds, 6; peas, 20 

 nasturtiums, 24, 33; tulips 

 40; Harwood's book on, 40 

 breeding for perfumes, 40 

 fragrant lilies, 46; gladioli, 49 

 rainbow com, 53; a plunger 

 67; intelHgent plants, 117 

 attacked by preacher, 121 

 tomatoes, 137; potatoes, 137, 

 197; poppies, 142-149; Shasta 

 daisy, 167; fragrant plants, 

 174; sweet peas, 175; book 

 on, for children, 180; joys 

 of creating, 180; strawber- 

 ries, 191; new plums, 194, 

 196; sends no trees East, 196; 

 chapter on commercial value 

 of new creations, 197-218; 

 work in 1920, 200; book on, 

 200; saving space, time and 

 money, 202; bonfires and 



moral character, 204; enemies, 

 205, 257; plums and quinces, 

 209; prunes, 209; cherries, 212; 

 cactus, 216, 260; makes fruit 

 more digestible, 234; on pa- 

 paws, 237-241; directions for 

 improving plants, 251; better- 

 ing Nature, 256; new edition of 

 literary works, 257. 



Burpee, W. Atlee, 6, 23, 136, 

 142, 153, 155, 174. 



Burroughs, John, 191. 



Cabbage, 17. 



Cactus, spineless, 260; "pears," 

 264. 



California, poppy, 143; sweet 

 peas, 150; climate, 200; grapes, 

 227; honors Burbank, 260. 



Calycanthus, 37. 



Carrots, 16, 21. 



Cats and dogs, 97. 



Cherries, 194, 212. 



Chickens, 100. 



Com, best in Maine, 3; how 

 loses sweetness, 11; best way 

 to can, 12; best fertilizer for, 

 24; raw and cooked, 26; 

 saving from frost, 76; how to 

 plant, 129; hastening growth, 

 138; Burbank's, 215. 



Cornflowers, 52. 



Country Gentleman, i, II, 71, 

 91, 226. 



Crows, 100. 



Cucumbers, cooked, 16. 



Cultivating the soil, 55-58. 



Cutworms, 109. 



Darwin, 255, 259. 

 Dew, 119. 



