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INDEX 



Suggestions for laboratory work, 



chapter on, 324 

 Summer radishes, 104 

 Sweet com, 212 



and other crops with similar 

 cultural requiremen ts, 

 chapter on, 212 

 culture of, 213 

 planting, 212 

 potato ridges, tools for making, 

 256 

 tubers, 257 

 potatoes, 254 



cultivation, 256 

 harvesting, 256 

 planting, 255 

 propagation of, 255 

 storage house for, 307 

 storage of, 311 

 tools used in harvesting, 257, 



258 

 types, 258 

 Swiss chard, 152 



Systems of intensive cropping, chap- 

 ter on, 260 



Temperature and moisture require- 

 ments of onions, 162 



factor, chapter on, 43 



influence on quahty of vege- 

 tables, 13 



regulation of, 313 



requirements of Lima beans, 207 

 Temperatures, for germination, 75 

 Tender vegetables, 43 

 Thickness of seeding, 79 



for growing onion sets, 177 

 Thinning muskmelon plants, 224 



onions, 166 



parsnips, 147 

 Tillage and fertilizing of rhubarb, 200 



conserving moisture by, 41 



following transplanting, 52 



in a city garden, 274 



in a small garden, 271 



in relation to quality of vege- 

 tables, 14 



of an established asparagus plan- 

 tation, 197 



of asparagus the first season, 195 



of onions, 165 



of plants under glass, 68 



of potatoes, 189 



space for, 77 



weeding and thinning of parsnips, 

 147 



Time of planting, 267 



muskmelons, 221 

 vegetables for winter stor- 

 age, 304 

 Timeliness in spraying, 94 

 Tobacco cloth, frame covered wdth, 



117 

 Tomato leaf spot, 249 



plant, pot-grown, 53 



pruned to a single stem, 248 

 plants ready for transplanting, 50 

 sprayed and unsprayed, 249 

 rust, 249 



seed, washing, 19 

 wilt, 250 

 Tomatoes, 244 



adaptation of varieties, 248 

 bench of hothouse, 317 

 cultivation, 246 

 diseases of, 249 

 forcing, 316 

 grading, 288 

 growing the plants, 244 

 picking, 248 

 properly packed, 292 

 pruning, 247 

 row of staked, 247 

 staldng, 246 

 transplanting, 245 

 Tools, dibber, 55 



transplanting machine, 56 

 trowel, 56 



used in harvesting sweet pota- 

 toes, 257, 258 

 used in preparing sweet potato 



ridges, 256 

 used in onion culture, 165 

 Topping onions, 169 

 Transpiration, reducing, 53 

 Transplanted crops that mature be- 

 fore the heat of summer, chapter 

 on, 114 

 Transplanting, age of plants, 49 



behavior of different plants, 49 



celery plants, 135 



chapter on, 48 



character of plants desired for, 49 



economic questions involved in, 



48 . 

 eggplants, 251 

 lettuce seedlings, 52 

 machine, 56 

 machines, 57 



means of insuring moisture fol- 

 lowing, 51 

 method of growing onions, 112 



