CONTENTS 



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CHAPTER I. TOMATOES ... i 



The Huge Demand Native Habitat Selection of Plants 

 Heavy and L/ight Soils, and how to Correct Them I,oam 

 Poor Soil Planting Treatment Ventilation Pot Plants 

 Supports Disbudding Feeding Dangers of Overfeeding 

 Disease and its Prevention Club Root- Cladosporium 

 Insect Pests White Fly. 



CHAPTER II. CUCUMBERS 21 



Sowing the Seed How to Treat Young Plants Planting on 

 Mounds ' ' Stopping ' ' General Treatment Watering 

 Syringing Training Feeding Pruning Pests and Diseases. 



CHAPTER III. MELONS 29 



Melons in Guernsey Sowing the Seed Treatment of Young 

 Plants Planting Stopping How Many Fruits per Plant ? 

 Enemies Feeding Ripening . 



CHAPTER IV. GRAPES 34 



Superiority of English Fruit Preparing the Borders Age to 

 Plant Planting Treatment for First Year Treatment for 

 Second Year Disbudding Third Year Pruning Thinning 

 Stoning Mildew Shanking Ripening the Vines. 



CHAPTER V. vSwEET PEAS 45 



A Routine Crop Sowing the Seed Potting Early Spencers 

 Supporting General Treatment. 



CHAPTER VI. FORCING BULBS ... 48 



General Remarks Roman Hyacinths Dutch Hyacinths in 

 Pots Tulips in Boxes Soil For Christmas Potting 

 Darwins Daffodils and Narcissi Paper White, Grand Primo, 

 Solield'Or, Trumpet, and other Daffodils Poeticus Ornatus 

 General Treatment Freesias Spanish Iris Gladioli Col- 

 villii Treatment. 



CHAPTER VII. " LIFTED " CHRYSANTHEMUMS... ... 56 



Culture in the Open Feeding, etc. Thinning and Disbudding 

 Results of Overfeeding Preparing to "Lift" In the 

 Houses Results of Planting too Thickly Treatment 

 Ventilation Watering Heating. 



