330 



INDEX 



Cannery, grow^ng vegetables for 



the, 5 

 Canning factories, peas for, 112 

 Care of plants under glass, 67 



of vegetables between harvest- 

 ing and marketing, 279 

 Carrots, 144, 146 

 Cart for transporting vegetables from 



field to packing shed, 284 

 Cauhflower, blanching the heads, 122 



early, 120 



good and poor heads illustrated, 

 120 



late, 128 



plants in fiat, 121 

 Celeriac, culture, 141, 142 

 Celery as dug from field, 139 



banked with earth, 138 



blanching, 137 



blanching with boards, 137 



chapter on, 133 



chief difficulties in growing, 

 133 



culture, new, 141 



distance of planting, 136 



early and late crops, 134 



filled, 9 



German, 142 



in irrigated regions, 137 



" new celery culture," 140 



newly transplanted, 54 



packed in box for w^inter storage, 

 310 



planting in trenches, 136 



plants, growing, 134 



root, 142 



seedlings, 135 



soil and climate, 133 



storage of, 309 



transplanting, 135 



turnip-rooted, culture, 141, 142 

 Chard, 153 



or Swiss chard, 152 

 Cheese cloth, seed-bed screened with, 



85 

 Chemical composition of vegetables, 



327 

 Chewing insects, 87 

 Chives, 184 



Cities, consigning to large, 298 

 Citron, 234 

 City garden, 272 



kinds of vegetables for, 272 

 plan of, 273 

 tillage in a, 274 

 Classification of vegetables, 96 



Clay soils, 10 



how improved, 10 

 Cleaning seeds, 20 



CUmate, influence on vegetable grow- 

 ing, 4 

 Climatic requirements of Brussels 

 sprouts, 130 

 of late cabbage, 124 

 Cloth-covered coldframe, 59, 66 

 Club root of cabbage, 127 

 Coldframe, cloth-covered, 59, 66 



description of, 58 

 Coldframes, construction of, 66 

 CoUards, 155 

 Commercial fertilizers, 30 

 effects of, 31 



time and method of appli- 

 cation, 32 

 Companion cropping, 260 

 Composition of vegetables, 327 

 Compost, 26 

 pile, 27 

 Compressed air knapsack sprayer, 92 

 Conditions essential to successful 

 storage, 305 

 for using green manure, 30 

 Conservation of moisture, 42 

 Consigning to large cities, 298 

 Construction of coldframes, 66 

 Controlling insects and diseases that 

 attack vegetable crops, chapter on, 

 83 

 Cool season crops, 44 



classified, 96 

 that quickly reach edi- 

 ble maturity, chap- 

 ter on, 98 

 Com, pop, 213 



curing, 214 

 harvesting, 214 

 planting, 214 

 Corn salad, culture of, 100^ 

 sweet, 212 i 



culture of, 213 j 

 planting, 212 -^-J 

 sugar, 212 

 Cos lettuce, 117, 118 

 Cowpeas for green manure, 28 

 Crates of melons, 293 

 Cress, garden, 100 ""\ 



upland, 159 

 Crop, selling the, 294 

 Cropping, companion, 260 

 succession, 261 

 systems of intensive, 260 

 Crops, cool season, 44 



