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Index. 



Diseased plants, 401. 



Diseases, fungoid, 24, 400, 424. 



Dissolved bones, 31. 



Drain, how to, 8. 



Drainage, 7, 19, 44, 65, 140 ; of clay 

 soils, 8 ; surface furrows, for, 8, 12. 



Drainage on small holding, 44. 



Drain pipes, sizes of, 10 ; alterna- 

 tives to, 10. 



Dried blood, 28. 



Dwarf or French beans, 57, 98, 100, 

 112,113,115,156; early crops, 156; 

 succession, sowing in open, 157 ; 

 intercropping, gathering, seed sav- 

 ing, manures, 158; varieties, 159; 

 to pack for market, 387. 



Early crops, French garden, 85-89. 



Effect of draining, 7, 8, 19 ; of ridging, 

 12. 



Endive, 96, 100, 101, 105, 106, 131, 

 209; sowing, cultivation, 210; blan- 

 ching, varieties, 211 ; to pack for 

 market, 391. 



Estimate of annual income and out- 

 lay, French garden, 108. 



Essentials of successful gardening, 

 140. 



Evaporation, effect of, on soil, 8. 



Equalized Peruvian guano, 32. 



Farmyard manure, its nature, analy- 

 sis, comparative cost, value and 

 use, 25, 26 ; condition in which to 

 use, 140 ; for potatoes, 282 ; fertil- 

 izing value compared with poultry 

 dung, 443. 



February reminders, general opera- 

 tions, 368 ; French gardening, 369. 



Fennel, 213. 



Fertilizers nitrogenous, 27; phos- 

 phatic, 30 ; potassic, 31 ; miscel- 

 laneous, 32 ; mixtures which may 

 and may not be made, 34 ; notes 

 on using, 34 ; valuing of, 35. 



Fertilizing units, approximate cost 

 of, 38. 



Fertility of soils, 6, 7, 13, 17. 



Finger and toe or anbury, 401. 



Fires, smother or smoulder, 381. 



Fish guano, 33. 



Flea beetles, 409. 



Flower pots, approximate sizes of, 

 439. 



Fly, snowy, 412; asparagus, 417; 

 cabbage root, 419; carrot, 420; 

 celery and parsnip, 421 ; onion, 422 ; 

 black or thunder, 422. 



Forcing, forwarding, and protecting, 

 devices for, 127-139. 



Forcing pit, cheaply constructed, 139. 



Frames and lights, details of con- 

 struction, 69-71. 



French beans, 57, 98, 100, 112, 113, 

 115,156. 



French gardening, 63, 108; general 

 description of, 63 ; capital required 

 for, 66 ; profits to be expected, 67 ; 

 frames and lights, 69; cloche, 

 cloche-carrier, 73 ; cloche-peg, 74 ; 

 to repair and store cloches, to use 

 cloches, 75 ; mats, frame for straw 

 mats, 76 ; how to make mats, 77 ; 

 water, 78 ; preparation of soil, 

 81-82; manure, 82-83; preparing 

 plants, 85 ; protecting plants, 89 ; 

 intercropping, 90 ; hot-beds for 

 frames, with diagram, 93 ; sowing 

 and planting frames, 93 ; routine 

 work, 94 ; alternative methods, 95 ; 

 hot-beds for cloches, with diagram, 

 96 ; cold beds or cold frames, 98 ; 

 warm beds for melons and cucum- 

 bers, 99 ; various other methods of 

 forcing and forwarding ; open-air 

 crops, 100. 



French garden of quarter- acre, 101 ; 

 arrangement and equipment, 102 ; 

 illustration of tools, 103 ; prices 

 obtained for produce, 104 ; details 

 of cropping and sales from the 

 various beds, 105-107 ; summary of 

 estimated expenditure for equip- 

 ment, with annual outlay and 

 receipts, 108. 



Frost-proof bed, 136. 



Fungicides, 405. 



Fungoid diseases, 24, 400, 424. 



Furrows, cross or water, 8, 12. 



Gas-lime, 15 ; for wire-worm, 414. 



Gardening, essentials of successful, 

 140. 



Garden seeds, germination of, lon- 

 gevity of 439. 



Glass-covered protectors, 136-7. 



Globe artichoke, 141 ; to pack for 

 market, 386. 



Grading, packing, and marketing, 

 382. 



Green manuring, 27. 



Growing for market, 46 ; for direct 

 supply, 47. 



Guano Peruvian, equalized Peru- 

 vian, 32 ; dissolved Peruvian, fish, 

 phosphatic, meat, 33. 



