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INDEX 



Tomato worms, 406 

 Top-working, 63 



methods of, 66 



of fruit trees, 65 



with buds, 63 

 Trees along roads, 355 

 Tubers, 56 

 Turnips, 248 

 Type, purity of, 30 



Under-drainage, 87 



Variation, 1 22, 33 



Vegetable gardening, chapter on, 254 



Vegetables, culture of, chapter on, 



263 



Lloyd's classification, 263 

 Velvet bean, 180 

 Vetches, 180 

 Vine layering, 59 



Walnuts', English and black, 361 

 Warmth for germination, 3 

 Water, acquired by plants, 8 



capillary, 82, 84 



free, 82, 83 



hygroscopic, 82 



required in season, 81 



in soils, chapter on, 81 



soil, 82 



table, depth of, 92 

 Watermelons, 279 

 Water system, 451 

 Weeds, chapter on, 372 



along roadsides, 384 



Weeds, annual, 373 

 biennial, 373 

 beneficial, 377 

 classification of, 373 

 control of, by rotation, 380, 384 

 dissemination of, 377 

 distribution of seed, 377 

 eradication of, 380 

 injuries and losses from, 376 

 laws against, 379 

 losses due to, 375 

 noxious seeds, 386, 387 

 pasture, 383 

 perennial, 373 

 poisonous, 376 

 principles of control, 385 

 spraying for, 383 

 spreading, 378 

 Wheat, 205 



distribution of, 207 

 growing, 209 

 harvesting, 210 

 kinds of. 208 

 types of, 208 

 Wild onions, 382 

 Wind breaks, 91 

 Wood lot, chapter on, 348 

 good land for, 355 

 management and harvest, 



359 



on the farm, 354 

 products of, 348 

 value of, 348 

 what to plant, 357 



