INDEX 



Acid phosphate, 161 

 Advantages of companion 

 cropping, 303, 304 

 Air slacked lime, 17 

 Ammonia, sulphate, 27, 



161 

 Annuals (varieties), 62, 



63, 64, 67 

 Apple, general culture, 



273-278 



variety, 278-279 

 planting, 280-281, 334 

 cover crops, 282, 283 

 insects, 285, 287 

 diseases (apple scab), 



286 

 pruning (see by month), 



365 

 Application of fertilizer, 



82 

 Arrangement of garden, 



67 



Arsenate of lead (pow- 

 der), 131, 331 

 Artichokes, culture of, 

 224-226 



Ashes, coal, 17, 30, 101, 



257 



wood, 23, 34, 33 

 amount, 22 

 Asparagus, culture of, 



217, 220 

 Insects and diseases, 



219, 220 

 summer, 227 



^x.. 



Back yard gardens, 1 

 Bags, paper (use of), 272 

 Beans, broad, 179, 181 

 lima, 179, 181 

 pole limas, 181 

 dry shell, 181, 182 

 varieties of, 182 

 string or snap, 



general culture, 176 



178 



varieties, 178, 179 

 Beets, culture of, 142, 143 

 Bisexual, See strawberry, 



245 



Blackberry, culture of, 

 263 



379 



