INDEX 



Acreage and value of vegetable crops 



in the United States, 322 

 Adaptation of varieties of tomatoes, 



248 

 Age of plants for transplanting, 49 

 Animal manures, 26 

 Aphis, melon, 219 

 Appljdng spray materials, methods 



of, 92 

 Arrangem.ent of vegetables in farm- 

 er's home garden, 267 

 Arsenate of lead, 91 

 Artichoke, burr, 201 



flower bud of, 202 



globe, 201 



Jerusalem, 202 



propagation by suckers, 202 



winter protection of, 201 

 Asparagus, 193 



blanched, 198 



cutting the crop, 198 



dressing with manure, 196, 198 



knife, 198 _ 



plantation in midsummer, 197 



planting, 195 



ready for market, 194 



root, 196 



soil for, 195 



starting the plantation, 193 



tillage of an established planta- 

 tion, 197 



tillage the first season, 195 



Back-yard garden, 8 



plan for, 273 

 Baits, poisoned, 84 

 Baskets of melons, 286 

 Beans, chapter on, 205 



dry shell, 210 



dwarf Lima, 209 



green shell, 207 



'"Horticultural Lima," 210 



Lima, 207 



other types of green shell, 209 



planting, 206 



pole Lima, 208 



string, 205 



temperature requirements of 

 Lima, 207 



Beans, wax, 205 



weevils in, 85 

 Beetle, potato, 87 



striped, 217 

 Beets, 144 



pit of, opened in March, 309 

 Bermuda onions, 172 

 "Black leaf 40" for melon hce, 219 

 Blanched asparagus, 198 

 Blanching cauliflower, 122 



celery, 137 



sea-kale, 203 

 "Boats" used in tillage of melons, 



228 

 Bordeaux mixture, 90 

 Borecole, 153 



Boxes, load of vegetable, 285 

 BroccoU, 129 



plant, 130 

 Brussels sprouts, 130 



climatic requirements, 130, 



131 

 storage of, 310 

 Bug, squash, 88 

 Bunching vegetables for market, 



286 

 Bunch of kohlrabi, as marketed, 287 



onions, green, 179 

 Burr artichoke, 201 



Cabbage, arrangement of, for winter 

 storage, 308 

 diseases of, 127 

 early, 117 

 field, 126 



ready for irrigating, 38 

 good and poor types, 17, 18 

 late, 124 



climatic requirements, 124 

 growing the plants, 124 

 plant WTapped with stiff paper 

 as a protection against cut- 

 worms, 84 

 precautions for successful trans- 

 planting, 125 

 savoy, 125 

 sections of, 119 

 storage of, 308 

 ' worms, 126 



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