INDEX 



335 



Packing sheds, 279, 280, 282 



vegetables for market, 292 

 Paris green, 91 

 Parsley, 157 



for winter use, 310 



plants in pots, 157 



under field conditions, 158 

 Parsnips, 146 



digging, 147 



soil for, 147 



thinning, 147 



tillage, weeding and tliinning of, 

 147 

 Peas, 109, 110 



common garden, 109 



for canning factories, 112 



size of plants. 111 



smooth-seeded, 110 



sugar, 112 



weevils in, 85 



wrinkled, 109 

 Pepper grass, 100 

 Peppers, 253 



several varieties of, 254 

 Perennial crops, chapter on, 193 



onions, 180 

 Phosphorus, sources of, 3 

 Picking tomatoes, 248 

 Pit of beets opened in March, 309 

 Plan of a city garden, 273 



of farmer's home garden, 265 

 Planker, 72 



Plant food, elements of, 25 

 sources of, 25 

 supply, chapter on, 25 



size of, 78 

 Planting asparagus, 195 



beans, 206 



depth of, 75 



distance of, 77 



horse-radish, 150 



muskmelon seed, 223 



muskmelons, preparations for, 

 222 

 time of, 221 



of seeds, chapter on, 74 



onion sets, 176 



pop corn, 214 



potatoes, 187 



preparation of soil for, 70 



preparing soil in flats for, 72 



rhubarb, 199 



sweet corn, 212 

 potatoes, 255 



time of, 267, 304 



watermelons, preparation for, 231 



Plants, care of, under glass, 67 



character of, for transplanting, 

 49 



growing celery, 134 

 eggplant, 251 

 late cabbage, 124 

 tomato, 244 



how kept from suffering for 

 moisture while transplanting, 

 50 



shifting young, 68 



suitable for green manuring, 28 

 Plowing, fall, 70 

 Poisoned baits, 84 

 Poisoning field mice, 223 

 Pole Lima beans, 208 

 Pop corn, 213 



curing, 214 



harvesting, 214 



planting, 214 

 Potassium, sources of, 31 

 Potato beetle, 87 



digger in operation, 191 



onions, 180 



planter in operation, 188 



sprayer in operation, 190 

 Potatoes, chapter on, 186 



early, 186 



fungous diseases of, 189 



harvesting, 191 



insect enemies of, 189 



new, 186 



outdoor cellar for storage of, 307 



planting, 187 



soil for, 187 



"straw," 189 



sweet, 154 



tillage of, 189 

 Pot-grown tomato plant, 53 

 Preparation of soil, 271 



for planting, chapter on, 70 



of vegetables for market, 284 

 Preser\'ing melon, 234 

 Principle of successful transplanting, 



49 _ 

 Principles of spraying, 72 

 Produce markets, local, 294 

 Production of good seed, 17 

 Propagation of artichoke, 202 



of horse-radish, 148 



of rhubarb, 199 



of sea-kale, 203 



of sweet potatoes, 255 

 Protection of eggplant from insects, 



253 

 Pruning tomatoes, 247 



