Index 



453 



Cucurbitacse, seeds, 124. 

 Cucurbitous crops, 241, 411. 

 Cultivating, 118. 

 Cultivators, 111. 

 Cummins, book by, 249. 

 Curing seeds. 141. 

 Cynara Scolymus, 242, 449. 



Dandelion, edible, 241, 353 



Darlington, book by, 249. 



Daubeny, quoted, 134. 



Daueus Carota, 240, 283. 



Day, book by, 250, 403 



Devol, quoted, 141. 



Dibbers. 114, 189. 



Dill, 432 . 



Dish-cloth gourd, 422. 



Dock, edible, 242, 445. 



Dolichos sesquipedalis, 388. 



Double-cropping, 181. 



Drainage, 85. 



Drawn plants, 73. 



Dreer, book by, 46. 



Drills, 164. 



Duggar, on beet diseases, 281. 



Duggar, on storage, 229. 



Earle, on tomatoes, 397, 398. 

 Eggplant, 241, 403; germination, 151; 



longevity of seeds, 137; number in 



sash, 46. 



Elder, book by, 250. 

 Emerson, book by, 250. 

 Endive, 241, 361; germination, 152; 



longevity of seeds, 137. 

 Equipment, 19. 

 Exports, 17. 



Fall-sown plants, 77. 

 Farm garden, 41. 

 Fennel, 432. 

 Fertilizer tests, 100. 

 Fertilizing land, 94. 

 Fessenden, books by, 250. 

 Fitch, book by, 251. 

 Fitz, book by, 251, 313. 

 Flats, 62, 193. 



Florida, trucking in, 8. 

 Flue-heated hotbeds, 64. 

 Forcing defined, 45. 

 Forcing-hill, 67, 69. 

 Forks, 114. 



Formalin for potatoes, 304, 309. 

 Formula for fertilizers, 104. 

 Frame defined, 46. 

 Frame, making, 50. 

 Frames, management, 72. 

 Franke, cellar of, 230. 

 Fungi, 199. 

 Fungicides, 211. 



Gardiner, book by, 252. 



Garfield, on asparagus, 440. 



Garlic, 240, 314. 



Geography of vegetable-gardening, 6. 



Georgia, trucking in, 8. 



Germination, 124. 



Germination vs. sprouting, 149. 



Gherkin, 242, 414. 



Glass for gardeners, 44. 



Glazing, 64; cost of, 49. 



Glycine hispida, 388. 



Goff, on vegetables, 276, 280, 283, 287, 



290, 328, 344, 350, 360, 377, 379, 382, 



401, 406, 415. 



Goodrich, on potato, 308. 

 Grading, 219. 



Gray & Trumbull, 388, 422, 448. 

 Green, book by, 243, 252. 

 Green, on bushel box, 217; on soil, 81; 



on tomatoes, 398. 

 Gregory, books by, 252, 273, 346. 

 Greiner, books by, 243, 252, 328, 378. 

 Greiner, on soil, 82; quoted, 21, 28. 

 Ground cherry, 410. 

 Growing of seeds, 165. 

 Gumbo, 427. 



Hale, census by, 2, 12, 15. 

 Half-hardy plants, 161 . 

 Halsted, seed samples, 144. 

 Hand-box, 71. 

 Hardening-off, 75. 

 Hardy plants, 161, 239. 



