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INDEX 



Frame for hotbed, 63 

 Freezing, root crops that stand, 146 

 Freshness of vegetables, 12 

 Fruit of the eggplant, 252 

 Fumigation in greenhouses, 86 

 Fungous diseases, 89 



of potatoes, 189 

 growing in tissue of leaf, 89 

 Fusarium wilt of tomatoes, 250 



Garden, best location for, 10 



cress, 100 



peas, 109 



seed drill, 81 



suburban, plan of, 270 



the city, 272 



the farmer's, 265 



village or suburban, 269 

 Gardening in a city back-yard, 8 



market, 1 

 GarUc, 181 



bulbs, 183 

 German celery, 142 

 Germination, conditions essential to, 

 74 



moisture necessary for, 74 



relation of drainage to, 75 



standards of, 22 



temperatures for, 75 



tests, 21 

 Gherkins, 236 



Gherkin vine and fruit, 236 

 Glass, care of plants under, 67 



tillage of plants under, 68 



use of in vegetable growing, 58 



watering plants under, 68 

 Globe artichoke, 201 



turnip, 107 

 Grades of melons, 290, 291 

 Grading vegetables for market, 288 

 Green bunch onions, 179 

 Greenhouse, modern, 59 



troubles, 314 

 Greenhouses, 60 



fumigation in, 86 



interior view, 314 

 Green manure, conditions for using, 

 30 



manures, 27 



manuring, plants suitable for, 28 



onions for late use, 181 



shell beans, 207 



other types, 209 

 Greens and salad plants that endure 

 heat, chapter on, 152 



spring, 101 



Greens that endure heat, 152 

 Growing vegetables for local market, 



2, 

 Gumbo, 215 



Hardy vegetables, 43 

 Harrow, disk, 71 

 Meeker, 164 

 spike tooth, 72 

 Harvesting and curing onion sets, 

 178 

 and marketing, care of vege- 

 tables between, 279 

 chapter on, 278 

 horse-radish, 150 

 onions, 168 



modern method, 170 

 period, the, 178 

 pop corn, 214 

 potatoes, 191 

 rhubarb, 200 

 spinach, method of, 102 

 sweet potatoes, 256 

 Head lettuce, 114 



cultural requirements, 114, 

 115, 116 

 Heat, greens that endure, 152 



salad plants that endure, 157 

 Hellebore, white, 92 

 Home garden, varieties of vegetables 

 for, 274 

 production of seed, 17 

 use, storage of vegetables in 



small quantities for, 308 

 vegetable garden, chapter on, 

 265 

 gardens, types of, 6 

 growing, 6 

 Horse-radish, 148 

 harvesting, 150 

 planting, 150 

 propagation of, 148 

 Hotbed, cross-section of simplest 

 form, 63 

 described, 58 

 frame, 63 



frame for, figure, 62 

 of head lettuce approaching 



maturity, 62 

 preparation of manure for, 60 

 simplest foiTn of, 61 

 Hotbeds, fire, 64 

 manure, 60 

 Hothouse tomatoes, bench of, 317 



vegetables, marketing, 312 

 Humid regions, water supply in, 35 



