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INDEX 



Pumpkins, 241 



storage of, 311 

 Purchasing fertilizers, 31 



Quality of vegetables, factors influ- 

 encing, 12 

 influence of moisture on, 



13 

 influence of temperature on, 



13 

 influence of tillage on, 14 

 relation of maturity to, 13 

 Quantity of manure and fertilizer to 



use, 33 

 Quantities of seed to buy, 275 

 Questions, review (see end of each 

 chapter) 



Radish, extra early, 104 

 Strasburg, 105 

 winter, 106 

 Radishes, culture of, 103 

 forcing, 315 

 spring, 103 

 summer, 104 

 types of, 103 

 winter, 104 

 Reasons for transplanting, 48 

 Reducing transpiration, 53 

 Regulation of temperature, 313 

 Removing tops from seedlings when 



transplanting, 54 

 Repellants, 85 

 Review questions (see end of each 



chapter) 

 Rhubarb, 199 



harvesting, 200 

 planting, 199 

 propagation of, 199 

 tillage and fertilizing of, 200 

 Roguing, 18 



Romaine, culture, 117, 118 

 Root crops, short season, 103 

 storage of, 308 

 that endure summer heat, 



chapter on, 144 

 that withstand freezing as 

 well as summer heat, 

 146 

 Roots, firming soil about, 51 

 Rotation of crops in relation to con- 

 trol of insects and diseases, 83 

 Rotations including truck crops, 4, 5 

 Rust, melon, 229 



of tomatoes, 249 

 Rutabagas, 108. 



Salad, corn, 100 



plants that endure heat, 157 

 Salads, spring, 98 

 Salsify, 148 



black, 148, 149 



Spanish, 148 

 Sandy soil, 9 

 Savoy cabbage, 125 

 Scolymus, 148, 149 

 Scorzonera, 148 



Screens for shading lettuce, 116 

 Sea-kale, 202 



blanching, 203 



propagation of, 203 

 Season, importance of, 46 



influence of on depth of planting, 

 77 

 Seed, diseases transmitted on, 85 



drill in, operation, 81 



factors essential to production of 

 good, 17 



home production of, 17 



quantities to buy, 275 



result of planting unreliable, 

 16 



should be tested, 23 



size and structure of, in relation 

 to depth of planting, 76 



supply, chapter on, 16 

 sources of, 16 



washing tomato, 19 

 Seed-bed screened with cheese cloth, 



85 

 Seeding, thickness of, 79 



for growing onion sets, 177 

 Seeds, cleaning and curing, 20 



germinate at different tempera- 

 tures, 75 



longevity of, 22 



methods of sowing, 81 



planting, 74 



reliabihty of, 20 



vitaHty of, 21 

 Seedsmen's trial grounds, 81 

 Selection, result of five years' in 



muskmelons, 18 

 Selling the crop, 294 

 Sets, growing ripe onions from, 174 



onion, 177 

 Shaflots. 183 

 Sheds, packing, 279 

 Shell beans, dry, 210 



green, 207 

 Shifting young plants, 68 

 Shipments to small cities, 297 

 Shipping to distant markets, 297 



