INDEX. 



Page 



Pit 26 



Plan of Garden 13 



Plant Compost 443 



Planting Fruit-trees 243 



Plant-room or Conservatory 474 



Plowing 21 



" in Crops .'. 91 



" Subsoil .. 23 



" Trench 



Plows, 7 Varieties 38, 42 



Plum, the 407 



Distances for 407 



Planting and Pruning .... 407 



Qualities of 407 



Soil suited to 407 



Varieties of for Drying ... 407 

 Plums, Selection of 25 Varieties 407 



1. Ottoman 408 



2. Hudson Gage 408 



3. Peach 



4. Duane's Purple 409 



5. Schenectady 410 



6r M'Laughlin 410 



7. Green Gage 410 



8. Lawrence's Favorite 411 



9. Washington 411 



10. Lombard 412 



11. Bleecker's Gage 



12. Smith's Orleans 412 



13. Cruger's Scarlet 413 



14. Columbian Gage 414 



15. Jefferson 414 



16. Imperial Gage 415 



17. Purple Gage 415 



18. Manning's Long Blue 415 



19. Dominie Dull 416 



20. Catharine 416 



21. Coe's Golden Drop 417 



22. Coe's Late Bed 



23. Blue Imperatrice 418 



24. Frost Gage 418 



25. Ickworth 



Plum Worm (Curculio) with pa- 

 rent Bug , 278 



Pomegranate 419 



Potato 170 



1 ' combined with Pole Beans 171 



" Hook 55 



" Size for Sets of.... 171 



Potting seedling Vegetables 



Preface .,.. 5 



Premature Fruiting .., 



Preparation of Scions and Grafts 227 

 Preparation of Soils for Garden. 18 



Preparatory Steps for final Trans- 

 planting of seedling Vegeta- 

 bles 



1. Bedding 



2. Potting. 



3. Grouting 



Preparing Holes and planting 



Trees 



23 Production of new Varieties of 



Vegetables 



Propagation of Fruit-trees 



" Flowers 



Shrubs 



Protection of Garden 



Pruning, opposite Purposes of, &c. 



" dwarf Trees 



" ornamental Shrubs, &c. 

 " and Forming of Fruit 



and Shade Trees 254, 



409 Pruning, "Root" 



" Summer" 



"Winter" 



" excessive.... 



Chisel 



Knife 



Saw 



Shears, 3 Sizes 



412 Pumpkin 



Q. 



Quantities of various Seeds re- 

 quired to sow or plant an Acre, 



Table of 



Quantity of Grain Seed per Acre 

 Quince, Varieties and Culture of 



R. 

 Rack and Gauge Wheel 



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87 

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245 



79 

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 437 

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17 

 251 

 255 

 477 



488 

 255 

 254 

 252 

 253 

 207 

 211 

 208 

 209 

 172 



496 

 495 

 420 



417 Radish 



Forms of 



Rake, 3 Varieties of.... 



419 Rape or Colewort 



Raspberry 



Varieties 



Modes of planting 



Soil for 



pruning the 



Frame for 



Red Worm, or Wire Worm 



87 Removing Evergreens, Time and 



Mode of, &c 



257 Removing ornamental Trees, &c. 



a. Practice of Nurserymen .... 



b. Preparation for 



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56 

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 424 

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492 

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