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INDEX 



Manure, 39 

 Manuring, 11, 158 

 Marking, 19 

 Matted row, 31 

 Mulching, 46, 88, 147 



Ordering plants, 206 

 Over-production, 112 

 Overhead irrigation, 56 



Packing house, 86 



rules, 79 

 Pedigree plants, 115 

 Pickers' rules, 75 

 Picking, 73 



prices for, 77 



stands, 85 

 Plant making qualities, 112 

 Planting, 23, 145 



systems, 31 

 Plants for the new bed, 151 



receiving, 22 

 Plowing, 12 



faU, 13 

 Poisons, 68 

 Pollen, spread of, 119 

 Pollination, 107, 116 

 Pot-grown plants, 97 



for fall, 113 

 Potted plants, convenience 



of, 103 

 Power spraying, 71 

 Profits, 135, 137 

 Propagation, no 



Red spider, 67 



Refrigerator crates, 85 



Renovating the old bed, 88 



Rolling, 17 



Root eaters, 61 



Runners, 150 

 cutting, 49 

 propagating, in 

 rooting in pots, 113 



Score card, 129 



Scoring and judging, 147 



Selection, Improvement by, 



116 

 Shipping, 80 

 Site, Selection of, 3 

 Slope vs. level, 5 

 Slug, 65 



Sod, old, inadvisable, 7 

 Soil, adapting, 9 

 and fertilizers, 41 

 ideal, 7 

 Spraying, 60 

 Spring planting, 148 

 Sterility, Possible cause of, 



119 

 Strawberries and vegetables 



together, 149 

 Summer cultivation, 149 

 planting, 28 



Tally checks, 77 

 Tarnished plant bug, 66 

 Temperatures under glass, 



106 

 Thinning, 108 

 Tillage, 51 



benefits of, 46 

 Tools, 47 



Transportation, 86 

 Trenching, 144 



Varieties for Pomological Dis- 

 tricts, 204 

 for special purposes, 190 



Water and health, 58 



quantity used, 45 

 Watering, 146 

 When to plant, 28 

 White grub, 7, 61 



Yields, Probable, 136 



