INDEX 



Silver Lake, N. M., 21 

 Sipe, Miss Susan B., supervisor 

 of school gardens, Washington, 

 D. C, II, 30 

 Size of garden, 113 



of plots, 63, 114, 115, 116, 

 117, 120, 131. 13Q, 146, 

 147. 225, 252 

 Soil, capillarity of. 98, qq 

 definition of, 85 

 depth of, 88, 89 

 fertility. 85. 87, 89, 96. 171 

 finely divided. 89, 96, 108 

 for children's garden, 87, 



89 



grains, 94 



improvement, 106 



mellow, 96 



particles, 92 



poor, 96 



porosity of, 98, 99 



sour. 95 



test of. 91, 146 

 Soils, according to formation, 86 



according to productivity, 

 86 



according to texture, 85 



exhausted, 97 



heavy, 88 



light, 88 

 Sorrel, 207 

 South Dakota, school garden, 



'«5 

 Spades, 122, 132, 134, 140 

 Spading. 89, 90. 139, 140, 141 



fork, 122 

 Spreading board for insects, 191 

 Squashes, 170 



Standard vegetables, 271, 272 

 State agricultural colleges. 33 



as 387 



Stockton, Cal., school garden. 



Stories of plants, 188 

 Storrs Agricultural College. 23 

 Street sweepings. 99. 102, 103 

 Subsoil, 88 

 Sulphur, 107 

 Sunlight, 108, 14^ 

 Superphosphate, 90 

 Supervisor, work of, 123 

 Supervisors, salaries of, 134 

 Supply plot, 152 

 Swiss chard, 156 



Tap roots, 96 



Teachers of school gardening, re- 

 quirements for, 83, 84, 85 

 Teaching of school garden, 4 

 Technical High School. Cleve- 

 land, O., 58 

 Tent, 129 

 Test of soil, 91 



chemical, 91 



mechanical or physical 

 92-94 



simple, 91 

 Texas, school garden. 1 1 5 

 Thaxter. Celia. 173 

 Tillage. 107. 178, 188 

 Toledo, O., school garden, 114 

 Tomatoes, 170 

 Tomato worm, 191 

 Toolhouse, 120, 138, 181 

 Tools, 120, 129, 132, 133, 134, 

 138 



cost of, 132, 134 

 Topographical garden. 65 

 Top-soil, 88. 89 



