INDEX 



331 



Crops, for forcing, selection of, 315 



rotation of, 83 



warm season, 45 

 Cross-section of manure hotbed, 63 

 Cucumber beetle, 218 



beetles, 217 



slicing, 235 

 Cucumbers, 235 



forcing, 315 



soil for, 236 

 Cultivation of lettuce, 116 



of muskmelons, 227 



of sweet potatoes, 256 



of tomatoes, 246 



of watermelons, 232 

 Cultivator, narrow-tooth, 40, 269 

 Cultural requirements for eggplant, 



251 

 Culture of squashes, 240 



of sweet corn, 213 

 Curing onions, 169 



onion sets, 178, 179 



pop corn, 214 



seeds, 20 



shed, onion, 171 

 Cushaw squash, 238 

 Cutting the asparagus crop, 198 



Dandelion, 156 

 Depth of planting, 75 



influence of season on, 77 

 in relation to size and struc- 

 ture of seed, 76 

 in relation to type and condi- 

 tion of soil, 76 

 Dibber, 55 



Difficulties in growing celery, 133 

 Digging parsnips, 147 

 Dirt bands for transplanting musk- 

 melons, 225, 226 

 Disk harrow, 71 

 Diseases, fungous, 89 

 of cabbage, 127 



that attack vegetable crops, 83 

 of tomatoes, 249 

 transmitted on seed, 85 

 Distance of planting, 77 

 celery, 136 



in relation to size of plant, 

 78 

 Distant markets, shipping to, 297 

 Drainage, relation of, to germination, 



75 

 Drill, seed, 81 

 Dry shell beans, 210 

 Dwarf Lima beans, 209 



Early and late crops of celery, 134 

 cabbage, 117 

 culture, 118 

 types of, 119 

 cauliflower, 120 

 potatoes, 186 

 Eastern Market, Detroit, Michigan, 



295 

 Economic questions involved in trans- 

 planting, 48 

 Effect of commercial fertilizers, 31 

 Eggplant, 251 



cultural requirements of, 251 

 fruit of the, 252 

 growing the plants, 251 

 protection from insects, 253 

 transplanting, 251 

 Elements of plant food, 25 

 Endive, 159 



ready for market, 159 

 Express shipments to small cities, 297 

 Extent of vegetable growing in the 



United States, chapter on, 319 

 Extremes of moisture, 228 

 Factors influencing the quality of 



vegetables, chapter on, 12 

 Fall plowing, advantages of, 70 



Farmer's garden, 265 

 home garden, 6 



arrangement of vege- 

 tables in, 267 

 labor-saving methods 



in, 268 

 plan of, 265 

 vegetable garden, 7 

 vegetable garden, diagram of, 

 266 

 Fertilizers, commercial, 30 

 effects of commercial, 31 

 purchasing, 31 

 quantities to use, 33 

 Field mice, poisoning, 223 

 Fire hotbed, 65 



hotbeds, construction of, 64 

 Firming soil about roots when trans- 

 planting, 51 

 Flat of cauliflower plants, 121 

 Flats, preparing soil for, 72 

 Forcing cucumbers, 316 

 lettuce, 315 

 radishes, 315 



selection of crops for, 315 

 tomatoes, 316 

 vegetables, chapter on, 312 

 Formulas for spray mixtures, 90 



